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PREFACE. 


No doubt many people will consider it an un- 
reasonable task to attempt to do away all together 
with the saloon and some other evils, and there are 
many more who have no desire to do away with 
them. To them I would say in the words of Peter, 
that this book is written to “ stir up your pure 
minds by way of remembrance, that ye may be 
mindful of the words which were spoken before by 
the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us 
the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: knowing this 
first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, 
walking after their own lusts, and saying, ‘ where is 
the promise of his coming? for since the father 
fell asleep, all things continue as they were from 
the beginning of the creation.’ 

“ For this they are ignorant of, that by the word 
of God the heavens were of old, and the earth- 
standing out of the water and in the water: where- 
by the world that then was, being overflowed with 
water, perished : but the heavens and the earth, 
which are now, by the same word are kept in store, 
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and 
perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ig- 
norant of this one thing, that one' day is with the 
Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as 


VI 


THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 


one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his 
promise, as some men count slackness, but is long 
suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should 
perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

“ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in 
the night ; in the which the heavens shall pass away 
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with 
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are 
therein shall be burned up. Seeing, then, that all 
these things shall be dissolved, what manner of per- 
sons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and 
godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming 
of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on 
fire shall be dissolved, and the elements melt with 
fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his 
promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, 
wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, belov- 
ed, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent 
that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot 
and blameless. And account that the long suffering 
• of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved 
brother Paul also according to the wisdom given 
unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his 
epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which 
are some things hard to be understood, which 
they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they 
do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruc- 
tion. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these 
things before, beware lest ye also, being led aw^ay 


PREFACE. 


VII 


with the error of the wicked, fall from your own 
steadfastness. But grow in grace and in the know- 
ledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. To 
him be glory both now and forever.” 

. ^No part of this book has been undertaken with- 
out first committing it in prayer to God, and if one 
sinner is converted, or one Christian aroused to 
more active service, the book will not have been 
written in vain ; but I expect greater results than 
that for the Master. I hope that some of the sug- 
gestions herein may be put into practice and there- 
by secure for our city better government, cleaner 
and healthier homes for the masses, less production 
of crime and a larger amount of righteousness in the 
lives of the citizens. I cannot understand how a 
man, and especially a follower of Jesus Christ, can 
countenance the drinking of liquor when he knows 
that liquor drinking is responsible for 8o per cent, 
of the crimes in this country. What a huge stum- 
bling block he is placing before the weaker brothers 
— “ one of the least of these.” “ Woe unto the 
world because of offenses ! for it must needs be that 
offenses come ; but woe to that man by whom the 
offense cometh !” However, I do not wish to make 
the preface longer than the book itself, so will re- 
fer you to the following pages hoping that you may 
find in them much of interest and spiritual help. “T 

Harold McGill Davis. 

BROOKLYN, N. Y. 

Oct. 1st,. 1895. 


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THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 


CHAPTER I. 


THE PREPARATION. 

The October sun was beginning to dispel the 
morning mists and the city was commencing its 
usual activity, when those who are accustomed to 
being up early were surprised to see little groups of 
gayly dressed young ladies and equally well dressed 
young men making their way toward Plymouth 
Church. They came from all directions. The work- 
ing man with his dinner pail in the street car looked 
up in surprise at the unusual sight ; the grocery 
man, opening his store, paused and wondered as the 
young people passed ; the ice man thawed out and 
suggested to the milk dealer that if he would open 
his cans the cream would probably rise oh the milk 
in astonishment, and the policeman on his beat 
awoke to the fact that something unusual was go_ 
ing on. Many of the young people wore some kind 
of badges and carried Bibles and hymn books. 

“ Where are all these people going?” a store- 
keeper asked a young man as he was passing. 


2 


THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 


“ To Plymouth Church/' was the reply. 

What is the occasion ? " was the next question. 

“The Christian Endeavorers are holding a sunrise 
prayer meeting as a preparation for their conven- 
tion which is to be held here to-morrow -and next 
day.” 

“ Isn’t this rather unusual ? ” he asked. 

“ O, no,” replied the Endeavorer, “ in convention 
seasons the sunrise prayer meeting is a customary 
service. We shall be glad to have you join us if 
you can.” 

“ Much obliged, young fellow, but I aint got no 
time on week days for prayer meetings ; got to ’tend 
store.” 

The storekeeper watched the crowds go by and 
was evidently impressed with the occasion. “ Them 
there young people are about the best lot I’ve seen 
in a long time,” he said to himself ; “ I’ve seen 
crowds go by here before, see ’em every day, but 
they aint like this ’un. Christian Endeavorers, 
are they? Well they’re the brightest lot o’ Christ- 
ians I ever see. And they wanted me to come to 
their meeting, too, well, well. Guess wife would 
think I was clean gone crazy if I attended prayer 
meeting, and before breakfast, too. I don’t belong 
to that crowd.” A moment later he called : “ Hey, 
Peter, tell Jerry to fill those orders right away and 
take them goods to Mrs. Jenkins; she wants ’em 
for breakfast, and you keep an eye on the door here 


THE PREPARATION. 


3 


— I’m going around the corner a minute.” And 
before he could realize it he had joined the proces- 
sion and was on his way to the meeting. 

The church was nearly full some minutes before 
the service began and that fact alone was inspiring. 
When the leader arose and gave out the opening 
hymn, the Endeavorers stood up and sang with a 
vim that fairly shook the walls. A few moments 
of silent prayer, another song and the leader an- 
nounced his text. 

“ Our theme this morning,” he said, “is ‘Prepara- 
tion,’ and the reference is found in Proverbs i6:i — 
‘The preparations of the heart in man, and the ans- 
wer of the tongue, is from the Lord.’ That, my 
friends, is why we have assembled here on this 
beautiful morning. We wish to take counsel with 
God in preparing our hearts and tongues for what 
we hope will be the greatest convention this city has 
ever seen. We should prepare our hearts to receive 
the blessings in store for us, and we should prepare 
our tongues to share those blessings with others. 
Prayer is the proper means of preparation. We 
have many excellent examples of that. When 
Nehemiah undertook a great work for the Lord he 
began with prayer ; when Daniel was called upon 
to reveal the King’s dreams, he prepared himself for 
the task with prayer ; when Elias wanted a drought, 
he prayed and ‘ it rained not for the space of three 
years and six months,’ and James says, ‘if any man 


4 


THE CITY OF EJSD FAVOR. 


lack wisdom/ that is needs preparation, ‘let him ask 
of God, who giveth liberally.’ Jesus says: ‘Ask 
and ye shall receive.’ So much for the method. We 
know how now to prepare, but for what are we 
making preparation ? John told the people in his 
day to ‘ Prepare the way of the Lord, make his 
paths straight ; ’ isn’t he telling us to do the same? 
Yes, we believe Christian Endeavor means prepar- 
ing the way for the Lord to enter straight into the 
heart of every one. Are you and I making His 
paths straight ? Does your life, and mine, open to 
the Lord the heart of any sinner? Is the common 
drunkard in the street brought any nearer to God 
by anything which you or I have done, or do we cut 
our paths away from him and leave him to die in 
the wilderness of sin ? We must not forget to make 
the paths of the Lord straight, and if we find a 
drunkard, or other unfortunate being in our path, 
we must not go around him, but rather deal with 
him accordingly. The Lord has use for him, also. 
You know an engineer in building a railroad digs 
out here and fills up there and by using material 
which he finds along his course makes his roadway 
level. Sometimes he finds soft earth and sometimes 
hard rock, but he makes use of both. So, we, in 
building a highway for our God, will meet all sorts 
and conditions of men, and we must be prepared 
to use such material. There is another important 
point in this command, and I wish to lay special 


THE PREPARATION. 


5 


emphasis on the word ‘ straight.’ It says ‘ Prepare 
ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight! 

“We hear a great deal to-day about the the build- 
ing of locomotives to be run by electricity, and the 
prospect of travelling at the rate of 200 miles an 
hour. Now, common sense teaches us that no train 
can run 200 miles an hour on our present tracks 
which are so full of curves, for the first curve would 
send the cars off at a tangent, like the small boy 
who plays ‘crack-the-whip.’ Before we travel much 
faster than our present express trains can carry us, 
the tracks must be made straight. The reason the 
Kingdom of God has made such slow progress on 
this earth is because we have riot made his paths 
straight. Let us, as Christian Endeavorers, make 
straight the highway of our God, and we shall see 
His Kingdom spreading over the earth with the 
velocity of lightning. Just think of the glorious 
possibilities ! 41,000 societies of Christian Endeavor 

on this earth. Grand old earth ! 2,500,000 En- 

deavorers stationed in various parts of the world. 
Young, strong and loyal Endeavorers. The number 
gaining at the rate of 1200 members for every day 
in the year. Who wouldn’t want to live in such 
times as these ! Wonderful are our opportunities ! 
Let us then make straight our paths and the 
electricity of Divine Love shall send the Gospel 
Train flying to the darkest parts of Africa and every 
other country. Prepare for the glorious dawn of 


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THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 


the beautiful day, when cometh the Son of Right- 
eousness. 

“ There is one other preparation of which I will 
speak before leaving the meeting in your hands. 

\_The Lord sent through Amos this message to the 
children of Israel : ‘ Prepare to meet thy God.’ 
Sodom and Gomorrah had been destroyed because 
of their wickedness, but Israel had been, as it were, 
a fire-brand plucked out of the burning ; yet they 
had not returned unto the Lord, and now they must 
prepare to meet their God. So must we. We must 
all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. There 
is work for us to do right here. This city needs 
renovating. Go down to Coney Island and walk 
through the Bowery, and the blasphemy you hear 
and the evil you see, you might expect to find in 
Sodom and Gomorrah, but not in the City of 
Churches. Are we prepared to meet our God ? We 
elect men to rule over us who dishonor the Sabbath. 
Are we prepared to meet our God ? The Lord has 
given us talents and he expects us to use them to 
his advantage. Let us not meet our God, then, 
with empty hands, or with our talent wrapped in a 
napkin. 

“ Friends, to-morrow we meet in convention. We 
have prayed and worked for this convention, believ- 
ing it would result in an increase of spiritual power 
and be a benefit to the city in awakening the Chris- 
tian element to new life and inducing many sinners 


THE PREPARATION. 


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to give themselves to the Lord. I believe that this 
will be an important week in the history of this city. 
May God grant us the power to understand and 
carry out His plans. Will some one lead us in 
prayer? ” 

The remaining minutes were quickly filled by the 
young people, who took part with unusual earnest- 
ness, and the meeting was over only too quickly. A 
few who were not obliged to hurry off to business 
or other engagements, remained to talk over the 
work and exchange greetings. The storekeeper had 
had his hand shaken so often that it pumped the 
tears to his eyes. 

“ Well, it does beat all,” he said to himself as he 
went back to the store. “ Why, I didn’t know a 
blessed one of them, and yet them fellers grasped 
my hand as though I was their long lost brother.” 
Then, after thinking a moment, he added, “ Well, 
may be I am. I was reading the other day some- 
thing about the brotherhood of man, and I am lost 
when I try to follow them fellers’ ideas. O, well, 
business is business, and I mustn’t fool away any 
more time.” 

But the storekeeper was a different man that day, 
and seemed to be absorbed in thought. His wife 
noticed the absent minded way he acted and feared 
something was wrong at the store. Finally, when 
the evening meal was over and they were alone, she 
could stand it no longer and said : 


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THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 


“ What is the matter, Carl, you don’t seem like 
yourself to-day?” 

He looked up and with a faint attempt to smile, 
said : “ Well, I don’t think I am myself. I’ve had a 
queer day. I s’pose you’ll think me crazy when I 
tell you I went to prayer-meeting this morning.” 

She looked at him in astonishment, but before 
she could say anything he continued : 

“Yes, I went with them Christian Endeavorers to 
their — their sunrise prayer meeting, I believe they 
call it.” Then he told her all about the meeting 
and the warm welcome he had received, and added, 
“But I wasn’t going to say anything about it just 
yet, for I thought you would think me funny.” 

It was a minute or two before she spoke. 

“ It does seem funny that you should go to prayer- 
meeting, but it is not the kind of funny to laugh at. 
I thought, while you were talking, of the days when 
I went regularly to prayer-meeting, and how you 
sometimes went with me. That was when we were 
first married, but now — well, we are both different 
now. That was a good many years ago,” she added, 
as she stroked his hair. 

“Yes, but you don’t seem much older,” he play- 
fully replied. Then, more seriously, he said, “ Don’t 
you want to attend one of them meetings to-mor- 
row ? They’ve got some big speakers on the pro- 
gramme. I’ll try and get off a little while in the 
afternoon and go with you. But, come to think of 


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9 


it, I ain’t got no badges, and I heard ’em say this 
morning that no one could get in that didn’t have a 
badge. I’ll see if I can’t catch hold of some of them 
fellers I saw this morning, and maybe they will lend 
me two,” 

For a reply his wife kissed him and said, “ I feel 
tired to-night, dear, and I think I will go to my 
room. You needn’t come now if you don’t want to.” 

After she had gone, the storekeeper sat still and 
thought of the strange things that had happened. 
His wife seemed unusually affectionate, and then, 
too, she hadn’t ridiculed him for going to prayer- 
meeting, as he had expected. It was evident that 
she had been somewhat affected by it. “Well,” he 
thought, “ Maria has always been a good wife to 
me, and I suppose I ought to have been different ; 
but then I never was much of a church goer, myself, 
and I suppose I’m to blame for getting her out of 
the church going habit. Maybe I can get her back 
to it again. Anyway, I’ll try.” 


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THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 


CHAPTER II. 


THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 

A full hour before the service began the Academy 
of Music was crowded with Endeavorers. Many 
were obliged to go to the Church of the Pilgrims, 
where an overflow meeting was held, and soon that 
church was filled also. The day had begun with 
another helpful sunrise meeting, and before nine 
o’clock the cars were crowded with Endeavorers, 
singing their favorite convention hymns. Sing? 
Why, the city was full of song. Delegations came 
from all directions, singing. Everybody sang. 
Merchants came to their store doors as a delegation 
passed, and would join in with the others if they 
knew the tune. Women and children came to the 
windows and kept time with .the music. Banners 
were flying and enthusiasm reigned. It was a day 
to mark the beginning of a new era in the history of 
Brooklyn, once the City of Churches. 

Among the first to arrive at the Academy was the 
store-keeper, Carl Berg. He scanned every face 
hoping by some good fortune to see the Endeav. 
orer who had invited him to the meeting the day 
before. It was with a feeling of hope and fear that 


THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 1 1 

he waited. Once he asked a delegate where he 
could get some badges, but when told he would 
have to register he concluded he would wait a little 
longer, as he did not know exactly what that 
meant. He began to grow anxious as the time 
passed. He saw the hall filling up rapidly, and even 
if he got the badges there might not be room inside. 
At last his face brightened up, and he made a rush 
through the crowd, to where his friend was. The 
Endeavorer at first did not recognize him, owing to 
the many things requiring his attention; but in a 
moment he recalled the circumstances, and gladly 
gave Carl the full directions for obtaining his badges. 

“ Lend you two!” said the Endeavorer. “No; 
we will give you two badges and two programmes 
as soon as you register for yourself and wife.” 

There was no time to be lost, and Carl was soon 
registered and off to get his wife to come to the 
meeting. Before he went, however, he turned to a 
delegate near him and asked : 

“ Excuse me, but do you know who that young 
man is, standing over there ? ” pointing in the direc- 
tion of his Endeavor friend. 

“Certainly,” was the reply, “that is Mr. Duncan, 
the President of the Brooklyn Union.” 

“Thank you,” said Carl, and off he rushed. 

In a very short time Carl and his wife were at. 
tempting to get into the Academy of Music, but the 
crowd was so great that the policeman kept them 


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'away from the door. They had just come by tlie 
Church of the Pilgrims, where they found it so full 
that people were standing in the vestibule. Dis- 
couragement was depicted in every line of Carl’s 
face as the policeman told him that no more could 
enter the Academy. It was against the rules of the 
Fire Department. For a moment he could not 
trust his voice, but directly he braced up for his 
wife’s sake, and said : 

“Well, Maria, I guess we ain’t in it. Might as 
well go home now and try it again this afternoon.” 

Just then Mr. Duncan came hurriedly past the 
door, and Carl grabbed him. 

“See here, Mr. Duncan,” he said, “ you see me 
and my wife are here, but we can’t get in.” 

“Well, I’m really very sorry,” said Duncan, “but 
I do not see how I can help you, under the circum- 
stances. The place will only hold so many people, 
and they all seem to be in there.” 

“You see,” said Carl hesitatingly, “you see, me 
and my wife — well, we’ve kind of gotten out of the 
habit of going to church, and we wanted to attend 
some of these meetings and — well, maybe we might 
get into the habit of going to church again.” 

Duncan thought for a moment and then said : 

“ I’m obliged to preside over the meeting at the 
Church, and you may take my ticket which will ad- 
mit you and your wife to seats on the platform. 
Present the ticket at the stage door yonder.” 


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13 


Carl was profuse in his thanks, but Duncan hur- 
ried off, hoping that the favor would be blessed. 
Carl and his wife were given seats on the stage, 
where they had a good view of the audience. It 
was a sight he never forgot. The Academy was 
packed to its utmost limit. It lacked a few minutes 
of being time to open the service when the presiding 
officer arose and said : “ Everybody will find it 
much pleasanter if the ladies will be kind enough to 
remove their hats.” In an instant every hat was 
off and Maria, astonished at the unusual sight took 
hers off and whispered to Carl: “Well, did you 

^ y y 

ever? 

At that moment someone in the top gallery began 
singing in a good strong voice, “ Scatter Sunshine,” 
and it was taken up in every part of the house with 
telling effect. The leader on the stage jumped up 
and kept time. Then he asked that only the men 
sing the second verse and all join in the chorus. 
Then the third verse was sung by the ladies and 
everyone sang the chorus. Such singing was a reve- 
lation to Carl and his wife, and they seemed spell- 
bound. The song was new to them. In fact, 
everything was new to them. When the speaker, 
who was to deliver the convention sermon, was in- 
troduced, he was greeted with the Chautaugua sa- 
lute, and Carl and Maria were more amazed than 
ever. So sudden, so silent, so impressive was that 
sea of white handkerchiefs. 


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THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 


When the greeting was over the speaker opened 
the Bible to the twenty-first chapter of Revelation 
and said : 

“Mr. President and fellow-Endeavorers : I bring 
you a message from God to-day, a vision of a new 
city, the City of Endeavor, and I will read these 
verses from John: ‘ And I John saw the holy city, 
new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of 
Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her hus- 
band. And I heard a great voice out of Heaven 
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, 
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his 
people, and God himself shall be with them, and be 
their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from, 
their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither 
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more 
pain : for the former things are passed away. And 
he that sat upon the throne said. Behold, I make 
all things new. . And he said unto me Write: for 
these words are true and faithful.’ 

“ When it was announced at the Boston conven- 
tion that there were 56,000 delegates registered, I 
thought what a magnificent city those delegates 
would make. I thought of it then and I have been 
thinking of it ever since. A city of 56,000 earnest, 
loyal Christian Endeavorers. Why, what a beauti- 
ful place it would be! Suppose, instead of going to 
Boston, they had selected some nice location here 
on Long Island, and had built them a city. It 


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15 


would be like the vision of John when he saw the 
holy city coming down from Heaven. It would be 
a veritable new Jerusalem. There would be no 
saloons in it ; there would be no houses of ill-fame ; 
there would be no thieves; no gambling dens, no 
disorder of any kind. There would be no need of 
police, no need of court houses, jails or reforma- 
tories. Every one’s property would be safe and 
each would love his neighbor as himself. There 
would be no kind of business carried on except that 
which is honorable and pleasing to the Lord. The 
streets would be broad and clean, the houses beauti- 
ful, and the grounds well kept. The city would be 
full of music, for Endeavorers love to sing, and sing 
well. There would be one fine church for each de- 
nomination, and there would be no church quarrels, 
but everything lovely and full of devotion and 
praise, and each denomination would feel friendly 
towards the other. O, I long to see such a city. I 
was going to call it a City of Endeavor, when it oc- 
curred to me that such a city would need no en- 
deavor, since it had already attained. Endeavor, 
you know, means to strive after, and so our City of 
Endeavor must be some city which is striving after 
the requirements of the holy city. It is not proba- 
ble that the Endeavorers would go off by them- 
selves and build a city; it isn’t desirable or best that 
they should, for we must try, or endeavor, to con- 
quer the evil about us and save the lost — not run 


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from them. And so I shall picture to you a City of 
Endeavor in its true sense. It, too, is located on 
Long Island, and its name is — Brooklyn. (Ap- 
plause.) You applaud at the suggestion of Brook- 
lyn being the City of Endeavor. I like your patriot- 
ism, but the angels in heaven will applaud when you 
have accomplished your endeavor, and then you will 
hear the king say, ‘ Well done, good and faithful 
servants; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.’ 
And O, what a joy it will be to live in Brooklyn. 
(Great applause.) 

“ My young Endeavorers, you have a task before 
you which is well nigh impossible ; but since with 
God all things are possible, you can accomplish this 
work if you rely upon His strength. His arm is 
not shortened that it cannot save. ‘Yet now be 
strong, O Jerubbabel, saith the Lord ; and be strong, 
O Joshua, son of Josedeck, the high priest; and be 
strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and 
work, for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts.’ 
There is your command, Endeavorers; now to the 
work. Let me outline it for you : 

“There are in this city of Brooklyn about 320 
Protestant churches and 5,000 saloons — about six- 
teen to one in favor of the saloons. The population 
of the city is 1,000,000, and the membership of the 
churches is a little over 100,000. The amount of 
money raised by the churches for Missions is 
$330,000, and the total amount raised for current 


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17 


expenses and all other purposes during last year 
was $2,000,000, while the amount spent in the 
saloons during the same period was approximately 
$15,000,000; and all the more shameful is it when 
we are told by the liquor-dealers that one-third of 
that amount was taken in on Sunday and during the 
time when the law requires the saloons to be closed. 
One saloon keeper said, if the saloons were closed 
on Sundays, that many saloon keepers would have 
to go out of business. God hasten the day, then, 
when the law shall be enforced. Fifty-eight per 
cent, of all arrests is for intoxication, and eighty per 
cent, of aj[l arrests is indirectly due to the drink 
habit — or to the saloon. You have in this city at 
least one judge in the police courts who owns a 
saloon, and after making a profit on the sale of 
liquor to make men drunk, he receives a salary of 
$5,000 to send the men to the lockup. It is a profit- 
able business — for the judge. I have heard, how- 
ever, that he is going to resign from the bench and 
open a school for prize-fighting in the next county. 
It will be a good riddance to the bench when he 
goes. You will also have to contend with the daily 
papers, which will be against any such movement as 
proposed for the City of Endeavor. The leading 
paper is evidently subsidized by the liquor-dealers, 
for, while admitting the law against Sunday opening 
of saloons, it said it would not ask the Mayor to en- 
force it, as he was pledged to the .saloon-keepers.' 


1 8 THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR, 

It begins to look as though everybody in authority 
belonged to the saloon. The police commissioner 
will not enforce the law because he would lose 30,000 
votes if he did. The Mayor will not enforce the 
law because he pledged himself not to. The police- 
men will not enforce the law because they are not 
instructed to by their superiors; and while in New 
York City the saloons are closed on Sunday, in 
Brooklyn they are open, and men, women and chil- 
dren go in and buy all the soul-damning fluid they 
desire. Is this the City of Churches, or is it the 
City of Saloons? Was David B. Hill right when he 

said he would rather have the saloons than the 

* 

churches on his side? Was David, the Psalmist, 
wrong when he said, ‘ He that sitteth in the heavens 
shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision?’ 
No, Endeavorers, ‘God is not mocked, for whatso- 
ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.’ If a 
man will sow corruption, he shall reap damnation; 
for nothing that is corrupt can enter the Holy City. 

“ But there is another difficulty which faces you, 
and that is the objection which some pastors have 
against the Christian Endeavor Society. Such min- 
isters are very few, but there are some left yet in 
Brooklyn. They don’t believe in the junior society, 
or training ‘ up a child in the way he should go;’ 
they don’t believe in making pledges, yet go right 
on performing the marriage vows every time they 
get a chance ; they don’t believe in interdenomina- 


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tional fellowship, or that ‘ one is your Master, even 
Christ, and all ye are brethren ; ’ and they don’t be- 
lieve in the consecration feature, or being ‘trans- 
formed by the renewing of your mind.’ Only have 
patience and these pastors will be ready to swing 
into line when they see the glorious progress of 
God’s army of young and devout Endeavorers in 
their enthusiastic march to the holy city. I believe 
in the enthusiasm of the Endeavorers. Enthusiasm 
is a grand thing. Enthusiasm is intense feeling as 
especially exhibited in ardent zeal for a principle or 
cause. Give me the church or Christian who is en- 
thusiastic, and I will give you grand results for the 
Master. Do you know what are the antonyms of 
enthusiasm? Listen and I will tell you. They are: 
calculation, calmness, caution, coldness, deadness, 
dulness, indifference, policy, prudence, timidity and 
wariness. Of what use, then, is a church or Christian 
who is not enthusiastic? O, if the Christian people 
would wake up to their possibilities, how different 
the world would be! How rapidly would the cause 
of Christ advance I I was present at the great power 
house at Niagara Falls; last June, when the electri- 
cal engineers were there to witness the test of the 
big electric generator, which was expected to pro- 
duce^ 5,000 horse power. Their enthusiasm was 
great when they saw the indicator register above 
the 5,000 mark. Engineers grow enthusiastic over 
horse power, or the force which lifts 33,000 pounds 


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one foot high in a minute. You and I are engineers 
in the spiritual world, and we ought to rejoice in 
man power, or the divine love exerted through man, 
which lifts the lowest human being into the realm 
of eternal day. Do you know that the society of 
Christian Endeavor is a mighty generator, producing 
at present 2,500,000 man power, with more to be 
added? Do you know the amount of power which 
you alone exert? Do you know how much the pro- 
gress of our cause depends upon the current which 
you turn on or off? Do you know what one young 
man can do towards making this a Holy City ? 

“ In the royal court of Persia the king’s-cup bearer 
was a young man named Nehemiah. This young 
fellow was a captive, but a favorite of the king. He 
was patriotic and loved his countrymen, and when 
he heard of their unfortunate condition he obtained 
permission from the king to go and assist them. 
He left his royal home and pleasant service to per- 
form a more important duty and difficult task. Sur_ 
rounded by enemies, determined and exceedingly 
treacherous, he persevered until his work was ac- 
complished, and in fifty-two days the walls of Jeru- 
salem were rebuilt. Just see the character of the 
young man ! When the enemies came he armed his 
men, and with a trowel in one hand and a weapon 
by his side, each man labored at his work. When 
the enemy tried to trap him he replied, ‘ I am doing 
a great work, so that I cannot come down ; why 


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21 


should the work cease whilst I leave it and come 
down to you ? ’ My Christian friends, you and I are 
doing a great work for the Lord ; why should the 
work cease while we go down to the enemy? Let us 
not comprise with Satan. And when Nehemiah had 
re-established the laws and people violated the Sab- 
bath, he said, ‘Why lodge ye about the wall? If you 
do so again I will lay hands on you.’ From that time 
forth they came no more on the Sabbath. He be- 
lieved in the enforcement of laws and he saw that 
they were enforced. Is there a Nehemiah in Brook- 
lyn, who will come to the assistance of his brethren 
and build up the walls of the City of Endeavor? 

“ The Israelites were greatly impoverished at one 
time by the Midianites who encamped against them. 
The Israelites were in the mountains dwelling in 
caves and dens, and the Midianites came up in such 
numbers that they were like grasshoppers for multi- 
tude. The Lord, however, selected Gideon, a young 
man threshing wheat, to deliver his people from the 
Midianites, and told him to choose his warriors. 
Gideon had 32,000 men to overthrow 135,000 Midi- 
anites. The Lord told Gideon his army was too 
large, and he gave them a test which sent to the 
rear 22,000 men. Still 10,000 were too many for 
Gideon and another test left him with only 300 men 
who were sufficiently brave and capable. Only the 
truest and most faithful followers would the Lord 
use in this great battle. Think of Gideon with 300 


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men to meet the kings of Midian and 135,000 
soldiers. The situation was about as discouraging as 
it is in Brooklyn. ‘Not by might, nor by power, but 
by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.’ So Gideon’s 
little band without any weapons except a few 
pieces of crockery, some horns and lanterns went 
forth to battle. But each man stood the test and 
knew what to do and when to do it, and at the 
proper moment they gave a shout, they blew the 
horns, smashed the pitchers and swung the lanterns; 
the Midianites became panic-stricken and fought 
each other until 120,000 of them had been killed 
and the others put to flight. Then Gideon pursued 
and captured the kings of Midian. So the Lord 
fought for Gideon : so the Lord will fight for you. 
Is there a Gideon here who will go forth and put to 
flight the Brooklyn Midianites ? 

“ We are living in a glorious age and shall soon 
witness the Lord of hosts vanquish the powers of 
evil. The Lord has been testing his warriors and 
we are on the eve of a mighty battle. Soon the 
shout will be heard from the hill side, the pitchers 
will be broken, the trumpets sounded and the gos- 
pel light swung to and fro until the followers of 
darkness shall in their own confusion be put to 
death. ‘ Awake, thou that sleepest ! ’ ‘for now is 
our salvation nearer than when we believed.’ 
‘ Arise, shine ; for thy light has come, and the glory 
of the Lord is risen upon thee I ’ ‘ And the seventh 


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23 


angle sounded ; and there were great voices in 
heaven, saying, ‘ The kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; 
and he shall reign for ever and ever.’ ^^God grant 
that the time may soon come when every city in our 
broad and beautiful land shall become not only a 
city of endeavor but a holy city — a new Jerusalem.” 


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the city of endeavor. 


CHAPTER HI. 


GIDEON’S BAND. 

The convention was over and the city had re- 
sumed its usual aspect. People were getting back 
to their accustomed places, y€t discussing on every 
hand the events that had just transpired. The one 
topic of conversation, for the time being, at least, 
was the Christian Endeavor Convention. The Good 
Citizenship Committee had arranged with the great 
temperance orator, John G. Woolley, to give a series 
of lectures to follow right after the convention. This 
kept the public aroused, and the politicians were 
wondering what would be the effect of all this on 
the approaching elections. To them, the Christian 
Endeavor movement was an unknown quantity. 
Here was a factor with which they had never before 
had to deal. The enthusiasm of the Endeavorers 
was business-like. Would they attempt to carry 
out any of the suggestions made at the convention ? 
The suggestion which seemed to be uppermost in 
the mind of the public was that made by the preacher 
of the convention sermon when he called Brooklyn 
the City of Endeavor. Would the Endeavorers at- 
tempt to revolutionize Brooklyn? Most people 


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25 


laughed and shook their heads at the idea. They 
thought the Endeavorers would have a sweet time 
if they undertook that. Might as well try to make 
the sun shine at night, they said. Others did not 
care to express an opinion, while a few hoped that 
it might be accomplished. 

The convention sermon had made a deep impres- 
sion on many of the audience, and had resulted in 
arousing some of the Endeavorers to action. At 
the evening session the presiding officer announced 
that certain ones had resolved to do what they could 
toward the reclaiming of Brooklyn as the City of 
Churches — or rather to make it a city of Endeavor, 
and asked all the young men of Brooklyn, who 
would be willing to join Gideon’s Band, to write 
their names and addresses on slips of paper, which 
would be collected by the ushers. Nearly 400 names 
were thus obtained, and placed in the hands of 
Albert H. Harrington, who had requested the an- 
nouncement made. Harrington was a prominent 
worker in the Brooklyn C. E. Union, and was an 
aggressive and determined, yet safe leader. After 
hearing the sermon and its suggestions, he con- 
sidered the matter and then decided to try it. As 
soon after the convention as possible, he obtained 
the use of a church and called a meeting of the men 
whose names he had received. He had a notice of 
the meeting published in all the Brooklyn daily 
papers, inviting all men who were interested in the 


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work to attend. There were about 300 present. 
He had an orchestra which enlivened the meeting 
with Christian Endeavor and patriotic music. 

“ Gentlemen,” said Harrington, after he had been 
elected chairman of the meeting, “ acting upon the 
suggestions made in the convention sermon, and be- 
lieving it possible to make this city a City of En- 
deavor, I have called this meeting to-night to get 
your opinions upon the subject. You all have, prob- 
ably, either heard the sermon or read it in the 
papers, and so are familiar with its nature. That 
the task is a difficult one, there is no doubt ; but I 
am confident that with a band of men as well dis- 
ciplined and faithful as Gideon’s company, we can 
overthrow the evil of this city until it shall be a holy 
city. I believe the evil places in this city are like 
the diseased parts of our bodies, and can be cured by 
using the proper remedies. But somebody must 
apply the remedy. A physician does not stay with 
the patient, but employs a trained nurse to stay and 
see that his instructions are followed and the reme- 
dies given. Jesus Christ is the Great Physician, and 
you and I are the skilled nurses, left here to see that 
His orders are obeyed. Shall we be faithful? 

“ It is one thing to have a theory, but it is often 
quite another thing to put that theory into success- 
ful practice. The practical plan in which I ask your 
co-operation is, briefly, as follows : 

“The members of this band must be fully conse- 


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27 


crated to the work, as only the strong-hearted and 
determined ones will accomplish it. They should 
be united as one man in the object to be obtained 
and the methods used. They should issue, or have 
issued, a daily paper, which will fully represent their 
work ; as the daily papers now published are, as 
every one knows, published merely for dollars and 
cents, and will favor the saloon, or any element 
which pays best. The power of the press is undis- 
puted, and we should have an organ of our own with 
which to meet the organs of the enemy. I think a 
daily paper could be published which would contain 
all the news in a decent manner — and that which 
wasn’t decent should be left out — and yet be an ex- 
ponent of Christian Endeavor. It might not be a 
financial success right away, but it would win in the 
end. Such a paper, I believe, is a necessity. Then, 
the Christians of all denominations, while not relin- 
quishing any part of their own faith, should unite in 
this one common aim to destroy the evil in our 
midst. Surely, they ought to agree on such a 
theme. Unity of action is desired on the part of 
the churches, and it can be accomplished without 
the breaking down of denominations. With the 
churches united and a daily paper to reach the 
masses, the next effort should be to have the exist- 
ing laws enforced. We should then try to have 
passed such laws as will accord with our belief and 
further our cause. You must remember that during 


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all this time we are educating through the press and 
from the pulpit, the masses of people, and each step 
we take is made more certain by the addition of 
new converts. I, for one, would like to see this city 
free from saloons and slums, from every form of 
vice. If the constant dropping of water will wear 
away the hardest stone, then I believe the constant 
hammering of our endeavor will drive away the 
strongest vice. It cannot be done in one year, but 
who will say that when the twentieth century comes 
it shall not find our city a holy city? Gentlemen, 
what say you ? ” 

There was a moment’s pause and then Mr. Dun- 
can, the president of the union arose. 

“ Mr. Chairman and gentlemen,” he said. “ I am 
heartily in favor of any scheme whereby we can im- 
prove our condition. It certainly needs improving. 
The entrances to this city, whether you come by 
the bridge or by the ferries, are lined with saloons 
and tenement houses of a cheap order. Cheap tene- 
ments and saloons go together. Strangers entering 
the so-called City of Churches receive anything but 
pleasant impressions. This should not be. The 
plan proposed to-night is a novel and somewhat 
startling one, and while it is a good one, I confess I 
do not quite see how we are going to carry it out. 
No doubt our leader has ideas on the subject which 
will develope as we advance, and as I believe him to 
be capable in the work he undertakes, I will gladly 


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join his band and work with all my heart for the 
City of Endeavor. I have here a note received 
to-day which I will read as it shows some effect of 
the convention upon the public: Dear Sir: I can- 
not tell you how much me and my wife are indebted 
to you for inviting us to the C. E. convention. We 
haven’t bin going to church in a good many years, 
and I aint ever gone much anyway, but Maria she 
used to, and now since we have bin to the conven- 
tion we are going to church regularly. We kinder 
feel as if we would like to do something to help 
along the City of Endeavor, that the preacher told 
about, but as we are getting along in years we can’t 
do much so I enclose a check for $100 and when 
you want more come and see me. Its to use for 
Gideon’s band. I wish you could get my two boys 
interested in Christian Endeavor. They are pretty 
wild and fond of drink. Maybe you wont mind 
praying for them. Yours respectfully, Carl Berg. 
It looks to me, Mr. Chairman, as though we were 
starting out under very auspicious circumstances. 
But, whatever we do, I hope that all present will 
remember to pray for these two young men whose 
parents have already expressed a change of heart.” 

“ I think,” said the chairman, as this request 
just made is right in the line of our work, that we 
might spend a few minutes in prayer for these 
young men. Will some one lead us? ” 

After several earnest, prayers in behalf of the 


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young men, the discussion of the evening was re 
sumed. Several young men spoke in favor of it and 
agreed to consecrate themselves to the work. 

Mr. Chairman,” said a young man in the back 
part of the room, “ aren’t we taking up the work 
which belongs to the Christian Endeavor Union? 
It seems to me that it is useless to multiply our 
organizations and while the Union is doing so nicely 
why should we interfere? I think the object in view 
is a good one and one we should strive after, but I 
think discretion the better part of valor and we 
ought to proceed slowly.” 

“ As the president of the Union is with us,” said 
Harrington, “ I will ask him to give us his views on 
that matter.” 

Mr. Duncan being appealed to replied as he arose 
and faced the questioner : “ It is generally under- 
stood that the local unions are organized for the pur- 
pose of extending inter-denominational fellowship 
rather than of taking up any special line of aggres- 
sive work. The C. E. societies in Brooklyn repre- 
sent twelve or more denominations, and as each 
society is expected to be loyal to its own denomina- 
tion and church, united work is necessarily limited 
As a union we may and ought to do all we can to ex- 
tend the organization by forming new societies, by 
increasing the spirit of fellowship and by originating 
and discussing such plans of work as may be con- 
sistent with our principles. I do not believe, how- 


GIDEON’S BAND. 


31 


ever, that the scheme proposed to-night can be 
carried out so well by the union as by Gideon’s 
band, and I believe the band will be an aid rather 
than a detriment to the union.” 

“ I think,” said the chairman, “ that our proposed 
band will be freer to work than the union, for we 
shall be banded not as societies, or churches, or 
denominations, but as individual citizens.” 

Another gentleman arose and addressed the 
chairman. 

“ I think,” said he, “ that the game is good, but 
the ammunition is scarce. I would be willing to 
join the band if I thought it would do any good. 
But these evils have been in existence from time 
immemorial and I believe they always will exist. 
If we do our duty and live good lives we will have 
done all that is required of us.” 

“ Mr. Chairman,” exclaimed several young men, 
jumping to their feet at the same time. The chair- 
man recognized the nearest one, who said : 

“ As Christians we are told to preach the gospel to 
every creature, and Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Ye 
have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and or- 
dained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, 
and that your fruit should remain.’ And God said 
unto the church of the Laodiceans : ‘So then, be- 
cause thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, 
I will spue thee out of my mouth.’ Now, then, it 
seems to me that as co-laborers with Christ, who 


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gave His life for us, we ought to be willing to give 
at least a portion of our time for the salvation of 
others. I move you, sir, that Gideon’s band be or- 
ganized at once.” 

“I second that motion,” came from different parts 
of the room. The motion being put was apparently 
unanimously carried. 

“ Gentlemen,” said Harrington, “ before we pro- 
ceed with the organization I wish to say a few 
words. When the children of Israel were in the wil- 
derness God commanded Moses to send twelve 
men, one for each tribe, into Canaan, the promised 
land, for the purpose of searching the country. Ten 
of these men brought back unfavorable reports, and 
said that the country was inhabited by giants, and 
that it would be impossible to obtain possession of 
the land which God had promised them. These evil 
I'eports caused the multitude to murmur against God 
^or bringing them out into the wilderness to die. 
God punished them by making them all remain in 
the wilderness forty years, and the ten unworthy 
spies and all who murmured with them, were never 
allowed to enter Canaan. The other two spies, 
Caleb and Joshua, gave a favorable report and said : 
‘ Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are 
well able to overcome it.’ These two men were re- 
warded by being allowed to enter the promised 
land and to enjoy its advantages. I would call your 
attention to the fact that the ten spies were just as 


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much the children of Israel — God’s chosen people — 
as the two faithful ones ; and there are two classes 
of church members to-day, those who give unfavor- 
able reports and those who are true and faithful. 
The ten said : ‘ There are giants there.’ The two 
said: ‘We are well able to overcome them.’ 
Friends, you and I are called to possess this city for 
righteousness. As there were giants in those days, 
so there are giants now. The saloon power is a 
mighty giant, but let us say, as did Caleb, ‘We are 
well able to overcome it.’ This was once the City 
of Churches ; we are now called to reclaim it. Let 
us, then, go up at once, for we are well able to pos- 
sess it. We will now proceed to call the roll, and 
those who are willing to join our band will please 
respond by saying ‘yes.’ After the roll has been 
called, any whose names have been omitted may 
come forward and join.” 

At this juncture quite a number went out. The 
roll call completed showed 225 young men who 
were willing to undertake the great task. They pro- 
ceeded at once with the preliminary work of the or. 
ganization, and unanimously chose Mr. Harrington 
as their lender. “Gideon Number 2,” they laugh- 
ingly called him. 

“ In accepting the leadership,” Harrington said, 
“ I feel that I have no power of my own, but that 
whatever is done is done by the power of God, who 
is the source of all power. It is His work we are to 


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do ; let us, then, take counsel of Him in all our 
plans. It is not necessary that we should bother 
about a constitution and by-laws, and all those 
things. A simple verse will bind us together, and 
unless some one has something better to offer, I 
suggest that we call ourselves Gideon’s Band, and 
take for our motto, or bond of unity, the words of 
Caleb : ‘ Let us go up at once and possess it, for we 
are well able to overcome it.’ It is rather late now. 
We will meet again one week from to-night and plan 
our campaign. My intention is to divide this band 
into three divisions, with a leader for each. One di- 
vision is to take charge of the work of establishing a 
daily newspaper for our cause ; the second division 
will undertake to bring the pastors into hearty sym- 
pathy with our purpose, and the other division will 
endeavor to have the existing laws enforced. As 
soon as one division succeeds in accomplishing its 
part, a new line of work will be given it. I believe 
that there will be a general revival in the churches 
this winter, because of the influence exerted by our 
grand convention just closed. Such a revival would 
greatly help along the City of Endeavor. ‘ Let us 
go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to 
overcome it.’ 


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CHAPTER IV. 


A TROLLEY ACCIDENT. 

It was late in the afternoon and the streets and 
cars were filled with people going home. Fulton 
street, below the City Hall, seemed to be a mass of 
cars and teams and pedestrians, all mixed in to- 
gether. A cry of horror was heard at the junction 
of Fulton and Court streets, and the crowd there 
soon doubled. 

“A man run over by the trolley car,” exclaimed 
an excited individual. “ Where’s an officer to ar- 
rest the motorman ! ” 

But the police were already taking the statements 
of the motorman, conductor and a number of wit- 
nesses, while a call for the ambulance had been sent 
in. 

The man was not killed, but badly injured. In- 
vestigation showed that he was very drunk, and at- 
tempting to get off a car he fell in front of another, 
and had his leg broken by the iron fender. A young 
man wearing a C. E. pin had been on the car, and 
helped to lift the man off the track. 

“What is your name?” asked a policeman. 


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“ Horace Berg,” replied the injured man. 

At the mention of that name the Endeavorer gave 
a start and said : Are you any relation of Carl 
Berg?” 

It’s none of your business,” was the rather 

startling reply. 

After the ambulance had gone, the Endeavorer 
hastened down the street to Mr. Berg’s store, and as 
he entered was greeted with a cheerful voice. 

“ Hello, Mr. Duncan, is that you? I’m glad to 
see you. Come right back here, if you can pick 
your way through the barrels.” 

“Thank you, Mr. Berg, I guess I’ll have no diffi- 
culty. Let us go into your private office for a mo- 
ment,” replied Duncan, as he grasped his friend’s 
hand. 

“You remember you mentioned having two sons 
whom you wanted to have interested in Christian 
Endeavor. Are they living at home with you ? ” 

“ One is, but the other comes and goes and we 
can’t keep track of him. Stephen, the youngest, is 
not so far down and we have some hopes of making 
a man of him, but Horace” — and here Mr. Berg 
shook his head and sighed. “ Horace,” he con- 
tinued in a moment, “has given himself up to drink 
until we almost feel at times that he is beyond all 
hope. He hasn’t been home for a week and I don’t 
know where he is now.” 

“ I think, perhaps, I can tell you. There was an 


A TROLLEY ACCIDENT. 


37 


accident up the street a few minutes ago, and a man 
had his leg broken by being hit by a street car fen- 
der. He has been taken to the hospital, although 
considerably under the influence of liquor. He gave 
his name as Horace— Horace Berg.” 

“ Horace — my boy — run over — in the hospital,” 
exclaimed Carl, as he tried to steady himself. 

“A broken leg is not so bad as it might be, Mr. 
Berg,” replied Duncan in reassuring tones. 

“ No, that is so,” said Carl as he became more 
calm, “ and he might be in a worse place than a hos- 
pital. But tell me all about it.” 

Duncan told him how his son had attempted to 
get off the car just at the junction of the Court and 
Fulton street and Myrtle avenue lines, and had met 
with the mishap. “ It is a very dangerous place,” 
he added. 

“ I want you to pray for my boy, Mr. Duncan,” 
said Carl as Duncan was leaving. 

“ I will and with all my heart, and when you get 
him removed to your house I will bring some of our 
society members down and hold a little prayer- 
meeting, if you wish.” 

On his way up the street after bidding Carl good- 
bye, he overtook Harrington and the two continued 
along together. The accident was mentioned and 
Harrington’s interest was enlisted in behalf of 
Horace. After agreeing to go and call on him the 
next morning at the hospital, the subject was 


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changed to the work of Gideon’s band. 

“ Mr. Duncan,” said Harrington, “ I think you 
have a special fitness for taking^ the leadership of the 
division on churches, and I want you to do it if you 
will. It is right in line with your work in the Union, 
and so will not interfere with your position as its 
president. I shall call on Edgar T. Bradley to look 
after the law enforcement division, while I shall en- 
deavor to work up the newspaper plan. If you and 
Bradley will come to my house to-morrow night we 
will discuss the various ideas I have in mind. I 
would suggest that the first Sunday in November be 
made a Temperance Day in the churches. Send a 
letter to all the pastors asking them to preach a 
temperance sermon on that day. It will come just 
before the election and may be helpful in winning 
votes for our cause. There isn’t any time to lose 
because the month is pretty nearly gone now.” 

“The Temperance Day is a good idea,” said Dun- 
can, “ and I will try to carry out your suggestions. 
The liquor dealers laugh at us because, they say, we 
talk temperance after the elections, while they get 
their work in before, when it counts for the most. 
There were 23,000 arrests last year for drunkenness 
in this city.” 

“There wouldn't have been, if the city officials 
had courage enough to enforce the laws. It is a 
shame that Brooklyn, the city of churches, should 
become the rum-hole of New York. The saloon 


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39 


must go, and I shall do all in my power to give it a 
rattling good start,” 

“Well, I’m with you,” replied Duncan. “The 
Good Citizenship Committee did some excellent 
work in turning down the officials who favored the 
saloons instead of fulfilling their oath of office and 
enforcing the laws. That was the entering wedge 
which will split the saloon power into fragments. 
The chairman of that committee should be remem- 
bered when the union makes its nominations this 
winter.” 

“ I was away at that time and did not see the ac- 
counts,” said Harrington, “ but you must have had 
a lively time of it.” 

“ It was interesting, to say the least. The chair- 
man of the committee presented some resolutions, 
which were enthusiastically received and adopted. 
I think I have a copy of, them in my pocket.” And 
Duncan handed Harrington the following resolu- 
tions : 

Whereas, Many of the public journals of our State are advocating 
the non enforcement of certain laws by officials whose sworn duty it 
is to enforce every law ; and still others are endeavoring to create 
the impression that there is an overwhelming demand for the enact- 
ment of more liberal excise laws and the opening of saloons on Sun- 
day ; and 

Whereas, The officials of our city, by their action and inaction, 
clearly demonstrate that they do not intend to fulfil, by enforcing the 
present excise laws, the obligations assumed by their oath of office ; 
be it 

Resolved, That the good citizenship committee be instructed to ex- 


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press to the mayor and the police commissioner of Brooklyn, the deep 
regret of this union at their present excise policy ; and be it further 
Resolved, That the officers of the State Union of Christian En- 
deavor be advised that it is the sense of the union that the subject of 
good citizenship should hold a prominent place before the State con- 
vention to be held in our city on the 8th and gth of October next ; 
that no official or other person, who, by his action or inaction, throws 
the weight of his influence in favor of an open saloon on Sunday, 
should be invited to address that convention, and that, if possible, 
provision should be made for a conference at that time of the repre- 
sentatives of all good citizenship committees, in order that our forces 
throughout the State may come together and stand shoulder to 
shoulder in the cause of good government. 

“ The Brooklyn daily Buzzard,'" continued Dun- 
can, after Harrington had read the resolutions, ‘‘ came 
out with an editorial and said the Endeavorers had 
insulted the Mayor, and intimated that they had 
better apologize. The Secretary of the committee 
replied to the editorial and carried on a brief, but 
lively controversy, in which the Buzzard rather got 
the worst of it. The editor would not give an 
answer to the question as to whether or not it was 
the duty of the Mayor and police commissioners to 
enforce the law requiring the saloons to be closed on 
Sunday. That paper dare not antagonize the saloon 
power. The controversy, however, aroused con- 
siderable interest in the subject, and when the con- 
vention programmes were printed, the Mayor’s name 
was omitted. He was to have delivered an address 
of welcome. So much for the cause of Christian 
citizenship.” 


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41 


“Yes, I am convinced that the time is coming 
when good government will prevail, and we shall 
have officials who know what their duty is and will 
do it,” said Harrington, “and you may be sure they 
will not belong to the saloon element. Some one 
has said that the man who is willing for the saloon 
to stay is in no hurry for Christ to come ; and I be- 
lieve he told the truth.” 

“ That is all the more shameful when it applies to 
a minister of the gospel. It is a matter of deep re- 
gret that there are ministers, or at least one minister, 
in this city that refused the use of his church for our 
temperance lectures, because, he said : ‘ It might in- 
terfere with my son’s election this fall’ And it was 
the pastor of a prominent church, too, that said it.” 

“ Shame, shame upon him ! ” said Harrington. 
“ His son deserves to be defeated. Nevertheless, 
I believe we are approaching a glorious day, and 
these hinderers will be swept to the rear by the 
mighty advance of truth and righteousness. The 
churches have felt the force of the convention and 
,the public has been stirred by Woolley’s grand dis- 
courses, and now is the time for us to work. Don’t 
forget to be at my house to-morrow night. I will 
stop at the hospital in the morning and inquire after 
Berg. Good-night.” 

“ Good bye,” said Duncan. “ I’ll be there.” And 
the two young men separated and went home. 

In the meantime, Horace Berg had been taken to 


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the hospital and had received the necessary medical 
aid. The shock had somewhat sobered him, and he 
was in a more humble state of mind when his father 
called. Carl found that he could be removed and 
so immediately procured a carriage and had him 
taken home. Then he notified Mr. Duncan of the 
change and told him he would be welcome any time 
he might choose to call at the house. Duncan tele- 
graphed to Harrington that Horace had been re- 
moved from the hospital to his home, so as to save 
his friend an unnecessary trip in the morning. 

That night was a sleepless one in the Berg house- 
hold. Horace was restless and impatient with his 
condition. Complaining and swearing, he passed a 
weary night, and kept his mother and father waiting 
upon him by turns. His brother Stephen came in 
late, and surprised at the unusual activity about the 
house at that hour, looked in the room and then 
went off to bed. Towards morning Horace began 
to sleep and slept until noon. He was much more 
quiet during the afternoon. In the evening Mr. 
Duncan called before going to Harrington’s. 

“ Horace,” said Carl, introducing his son, “ this is 
Mr. Duncan, who helped pick you up from the track 
yesterday.” 

‘‘Glad to see you, Mr. Duncan,” said Horace, ex- 
tending his hand. After scanning his face a moment 
he said : “ Aren’t you the feller who asked if I was 
a relation of Carl Berg ? ” 


A TROLLEY ACCIDENT, 


43 


“ Yes,” replied Duncan. 

“Well, you must pardon my hasty language. I 
wasn’t myself at the moment.” 

“ Certainly,” said Duncan, “ I knew you did not 
realize what you were saying. Don’t think of it 
again. I hope that you will not be laid up long. 
That junction of car lines is a dangerous place and 
you were fortunate in escaping with a broken leg. 
I am glad, too, that you have been brought home 
and are not confined in the hospital. If there is 
anything I can do for you, be sure to let me know. 
If you are fond of reading I shall be glad to lend 
you my library ticket.” 

“Thanks,” said Horace, “I don’t care much to 
read, except the daily papers.” 

“ It may help you to pass away the time,” replied 
Duncan, inwardly adding that it would be a good 
thing now if the Christian Endeavor Daily were 
published. Then bidding the family good-night he 
went to Harrington’s. 

“ That’s one of them Christian Endeavor fellers 
you’ve been talking about, isn’t it?” Horace asked 
when Duncan had gone. “ He seems like a decent 
sort of a feller, but he needn’t be coming around 
here to see me. He ain’t my style.” 

“ Never mind, my son, if he takes an interest in 
you and wants to see how you are getting along ; it 
wont do you any harm to have him come,” said 
Mrs. Berg, as she held Horace’s hand. 


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** I suppose you’ll be wanting him to convert me ; 
but I tell you it’s no use. I ain’t ready.” 

I wish you were, my son ; I wish you were,” was 
all she could say. Her hand tightened on his, and 
as he saw her eyes moist with tears, he said : 

Don’t worry about me, mother ; I’ll get around 
to it some day, like as not. Anyway, I guess I’m as 
good as some church members.” 

“ But you are not as good as the best, and I want 
my boy to be the best.’’ 

“You have always been a good mother, but you 
seem to have suddenly got church in your head. 
How did you come to get religious so sudden? ” 

“ Your father and I have been attending the Chris- 
tian Endeavor Convention, and we have learned 
some beautiful truths. I used to go to church regu- 
larly, but got out of the habit. Now we see things 
in a different light, and I begin to think that I never 
knew before what the real Christian life is. So 
many people go to church and go through the cere- 
monies and think they are Christians — but they’re 
not. It takes more than that to make a Christian.” 

“ I guess you’re right, mother,” said Horace. “ I 
see some church people do things that don’t look 
like Christians. I guess there are mighty few Chris- 
tians in this world.” 

“We are not to judge that, Horace. The Lord 
knows them that are his. Some of His people live 
very near to Him, and others are a long ways off. 


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45 


Your father and I have been getting nearer to Him, 
and O, it is so much sweeter, and so delightful. His 
presence is glorious, and to feel that God is near 
you, brings so much comfort and peace. I am glad 
we went to the convention.” 

** Well, I suppose it’s all right for them that un- 
derstand those things — but I don’t.” 

“ But you can learn to understand them. They 
are very simple. ‘ God is love.’ That is easy to 
understand. * God so loved the world that He gave 
His only begotten Son ; that whosoever believeth in 
Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’ 
That isn’t difficult to understand. If you would only 
let the truth shine into you — but you shut it out. 
See what happy people these Christian Endeavorers 
are. They let God teach them the truth and they 
go along rejoicing. So would everybody if they 
would let God direct them.” 

“ You’re getting to be quite a preacher, mother. 
I expect you’ll be joining the C. E. Society.” 

“ I guess I’m too old for that now. That is a 
young people’s society ; but you could join it, if you 
would.” 

“ I — ha ! ha ! ” And Horace laughed. “ I see 
myself joining their society. What do you suppose 
them fellers want with me ? Do you suppose that — 
what was that chap’s name that was in here ? ” 

‘‘Mr. Duncan, do you mean?” 

“ Yes. Do you suppose that Duncan would vote 


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for me? Not after the way I swore at him yester- 
day.” 

‘‘I do not know,” she replied. “Mr. Duncan is 
an earnest Christian Endeavorer, and I think he 
would like to have you become one. But, of course, 
you would have to stop swearing if you joined the 
society.” 

“Well, I guess you needn’t propose my name to- 
night. Better wait till my leg gets well, and then if 
they black-ball me they wont have to carry me out.” 
And Horace chuckled to himself. 

“ Horace, I’m going to invite some of the En- 
deavorers to come here and hold a meeting, so you 
can see what it’s like.” 

“ The — excuse me, mother, I was going to swear. 
I’d rather you wouldn’t. Break my other leg if you 
want to, but don’t go to holding prayer-meetings 
over me.” 

“ Horace ! ” she exclaimed, and bowed her head 
on his shoulder. 

“Well, never mind me, mother; go ahead and in- 
vite them all down here if you want to.” 

She made no reply, but remained quiet some time, 
and then arose and prepared the room for the night. 

“ Good-night, my son,” she said, as she kissed him. 
“ I hope you will be better in the morning.” 


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CHAPTER V. 


THE CAMPAIGN OPENED. 

The Good Citizenship Committee had been doing 
some good work before and since the convention, 
and had obtained the signatures of a great many 
voters who were willing to adopt the platform aimed 
to secure the proper observance of Sunday and the 
purification of politics. The committee issued a 
neat card containing the principles and with an ap- 
plication blank attached. The card was as follows : 

GOOD CITIZENSHIP COMMITTEE. 
Brooklyn Christian Endeavor Union. 

OUR PLATFORM. 

We believe in God, and recognize our obligation 
to acknowledge His right to rule in the Nation, 
State and Municipality, as well as in the individual 
heart. 

We believe in the proper observance of Sunday as 
a day of rest and worship. 

We believe the saloon to be a menace to good 
government, as well as to the home, and that its in- 


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fluence should be banished from our political life ; 
and we favor all laws and plans which will lessen the 
evils of or totally annihilate the liquor traffic. 

We believe that every man is in duty bound to 
exercise his rights of citizenship. 

We believe in the outspoken denunciation of po- 
litical corruption by the pulpit, the public press, and 
by the individual citizen, and we believe in united 
effort for the enforcement of law and the suppres- 
sion of vice. 

We believe in everything that will take religion 
(not the church) into politics and in everything that 
will keep politics out of religion. 

OUR OBJECT. 

To induce the voting members of our Societies, 
Churches and Community to perform their duties as 
citizens. 

To oppose all efforts to break down the American 
Sunday. 

To encourage, total abstinence and to counteract 
the power and influence of the saloon. 

OUR METHODS. 

Education and Agitation. 


Being a legal voter in Kings County ^ State of New 
York, and heartily endorsing the work of the Good 


THE CAMPAIGN OPENED. 


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Citizenship Committee of the Brooklyn Christian 
Endeavor Union — as outlined on the card above — I 
desire to he enrolled as an Honorary Member of said 
Committee, and will strive to exert all my personal 
influence along the lines indicated. 

(There is no expense attached to the Honorary Mem- 
bership.) 

Name, 

Street Address, 

[This application should be detached and mailed immediately to the 
Secretary, HAROLD M. DAVIS, 157 Congress Street, Brooislyn.] 

These cards were distributed among the societies 
and wherever there was any prospect of getting sig- 
natures. The names as rapidly as obtained were re- 
corded alphabetically by the secretary, who mailed 
to them such information on good government and 
about the candidates as the committee could secure. 
In this way public interest was kept up in the cause. 

The first regular meeting of Gideon’s Band was 
pretty fully attended and that was an encouraging 
sign of interest in and devotion to the work. The 
leaders had been assigned to the divisions, and the 
classification of the members had been completed. 
The first work taken up was that of the church di- 
vision under the leadership of Mr. Duncan. 

“ Mr. Chairman,” said Duncan addressing Har- 
rington, I hardly know which is the proper way to 
address you. Are we to say Mr. President, Mr. 
Chairman or Mr. Gideon ? ” 


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Harrington smiled as much as the dignity of his 
position would permit, and said : 

“ So far as I am concerned I would be satisfied 
with simply Mr. Harrington, but, recognizing the 
value of discipline in conducting large assemblies, I 
think that my position maybe defined sufficiently as 
Mr. Chairman.” 

“ Well, then, Mr. Chairman,” continued Duncan, 
“ the church division has a report to make whenever 
you are ready to hear it.” 

“You may proceed now,” responded the chair- 
man. 

“ The division on churches, sir,” said Duncan ad- 
dressing Harrington, “ has deemed it advisable to 
carry out a suggestion made by you a few days ago, 
and has sent the following letter to each of the pas- 
tors in this city. If they will enter into the spirit 
and make November 3d a Temperance Sunday, we 
believe that the cause will be greatly advanced. 
This is the letter : 

Reverend and Dear Sir: Believing that you 
are interested in making this city a city of right- 
eousness, we take the liberty of invoking your as- 
sistance in our endeavor to counteract the tremen- 
dous influence of the saloon. The diagram here 
shown is a startling revelation, and the statistics are 
as accurate as it is possible to get them. During 
last year the Protestant churches of Brooklyn raised 
for missions the sum of $330,000. The total 
amount raised for all church purposes, including ex 


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$2,000,000. 


$ 330 , 000 . 



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penses, was $2,000,000, while the amount spent in 
the Brooklyn saloons during the same period is esti- 
mated at $15,000,000. To overthrow so mighty a 
giant as that evil requires a united effort on the part 
of the churches. Public sentiment has been greatly 
aroused by the divine spirit in the Christian En- 
deavor convention held here recently, and the five 
addresses delivered by Mr. Woolley have kept the 
interest up. If the churches will take hold nowand 
make a strong plea throughout the city, many men 
and youths may be persuaded to take a firm stand 
against the saloon and its evils, both in private and 
public life. To this end we desire to make Sunday, 
November 3d, a Temperance Day in Brooklyn, and 
we ask if you will kindly consent to preach a tem- 
perance sermon on that day. Please let us know if 
we may count on your assistance, so that we may 
form some idea of the success of our efforts. Trust- 
ing that we may have your co-operation, we have 
the honor to be 

Sincerely yours for the Master. 

This letter was signed by the seventy-five mem- 
bers of the church division.” 

“ I think, Mr. Chairman,” said Edgar T. Bradley, 
“that many of the pastors will respond favorably to 
such an earnest appeal. I hope they all will. I am 
not on that division, but believing that the saloon is 
largely the cause of the non-enforcement of our 
laws, and being on the law enforcement division, I 
am particularly interested in abolishing, the saloon. 
I hope, therefore, that the church division will be 
successful with the Temperance Sunday.” 


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“ The saloon problem is a very important one, and 
especially at the present time,” said Harrington. 
“ The success which has crowned the efforts of the 
police commissioners • in New York City, has made 
the Excise question an important factor in our ap- 
proaching elections. It seems to me that it might 
be well for us to devote our whole energy to this one 
great evil until after the elections. Therefore, I sug- 
gest that we hear what the other divisions have to 
say on this subject. Mr. Bradley, what has the law 
enforcement division to suggest?” 

“Well,” replied Bradley, “ I can scarcely say that 
our division has got to work yet ; but I have one or 
two suggestions to make. I saw a unique card in 
the Rmn s Horn a short time ago. The card is used 
by the Rev. Charles W. Hardendorf, of Albany, in 
his temperance work. It reads as follows: 

T. H. E. Devil, Pres’t. L. Beer, Sec’y. 

Al. Cohol, Vice Pres’t. W. Hisky, Traffic Agt. 

THE S. A. LOON CO. 

UNLIMITED. 

MAKERS AND DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF 

CRIME, CRIMINALS AND SUFFERING. 

We beg leave to announce that with our increased 
facilities we are now making over three-fourths of all 
the murderers, thieves, paupers, harlots and lunatics in 
the market. We mean to drive every other institution 
from the land and absolutely monopolize the manu- 
facture. 


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N. B. — Rooms in jails, alms-houses and asylums se- 
cured for our customers in advance. A large lot of 
broken hearts and crushed hopes taken in exchange for 
our work, will be closed out cheap. No offer refused. 

While the wording of the card is somewhat un- 
usual, I think it is truthful ; and now, my suggestion 
is that we issue as many thousand of these cards as 
may be necessary for distribution where they will do 
the most good. They might be distributed among 
the churches and Sunday Schools, but I think that 
they ought to be handed out to men and boys who 
frequent the saloons. I believe if a young man stood 
down at the ferries and at the bridge, and distributed 
these cards to the men coming home, many a work- 
ingman would be helped to pass the saloon in safety. 
Do you know it is an awful temptation for working- 
men to come over the ferry and walk up the street 
to their homes? After leaving the ferry the first 
house they come to is a saloon, and the one next to 
that is a — saloon, while the third one is a — saloon. 
Then the saloons begin to thin out somewhat, but if 
the workingman has to walk a half dozen blocks or 
more, he will have to pass from fifteen to twenty 
saloons. Suppose he gets past the first three all 
right, by the time he reaches the tenth or fourteenth, 
the temptation has taken such a hold on him that it 
has become irresistible and he goes in and takes a 
drink. He adds his little to swell the $15,000,000 
income of the liquor dealers, while his own wife and 


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little ones go without many of the necessities of life 
and content themselves with bare floors in a cheap 
tenement. I say we have had too much saloon al- 
ready in Brooklyn, and now the time has come when 
the saloon must go.” 

‘‘Amen!” shouted the Band. “It must and it 
shall.” 

“ I think your suggestion a good one,” said the 
chairman, addressing Bradley, “ and you are author- 
ized to go ahead and procure the cards and use them 
to the best advantage.” 

“Thank you,” said Bradley. “ Here is a chart of 
a section of this city around the City Hall. The 
black spots represent saloons. What a satire upon 
the City of Churches ! There is another matter of 
which I wish to speak. When the mayor and police 
commissioner claimed that the Sunday law was en- 
forced in this city, everybody, who paid any atten- 
tion to the matter at all, knew that the law was 
being violated continually and without any effort at 
restraint. On Sunday, August nth, I stationed my- 
self at several points to observe the condition of af- 
fairs. On the corner of Atlantic avenue and Henry 
street I watched for six minutes, and during that 
time I saw four men enter the saloon and one woman 
come out carrying a pail of beer. There was also a 
girl about thirteen years old who came out with a 
pail of beer. On the corner of Hicks and Harrison 
streets I stood for ten minutes, and during that time 



Map of Brooklyn around the City Hall The Black spots are saloons. 

By permission of the Law Enforcement Society, 


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nine people entered the saloon. Seven of them car- 
ried empty pails and soon came out with the pails 
full of beer, evidently. One of these persons was a 
boy about twelve years old. I went to other places, 
but I will not tire you with the testimony, as it 
would be but a repetition. Now, sir, it is evident 
that not only the Sunday law was violated, but also 
the law prohibiting the sale of liquor to children. 
In the face of these facts I submit the following 
scheme : I propose to post on each door of the sa- 
loons this notice : 

1. The law forbids the sale of liquor to children. 

2. The law forbids the sale of liquor on Sundays. 

3. Parents or guardians will be held as accessory 
when children act as conveyors. 

4. Persons found purchasing liquor at unlawful 
times will be held as accessory. 

5. Persons seen entering this saloon at unlawful 
times are liable to arrest as suspicious characters. 

6. The city officials request. the assistance of all 
law-abiding people in the enforcement of these laws. 

Signed by (Mayor) and (Police Commissioner.)” 

At the mention of the city officials the members 
of the Band showed a tendency to laugh. 

“That is all right,” continued Bradley. “I don’t 
wonder you smile. Of course, I do not expect to 
accomplish this at present ; but after the election 
next month, we may have officials who will be will- 
ing to pass such an ordinance and sign it. At any 


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rate, I think it worth trying.” 

“So do I, Mr. Bradley,” said Harrington. “I 
think the scheme excellent.” 

A member of the law enforcement division arose 
and addressed the Chairman. I have here,” said 
he, “ a copy of the questions which the Good Citi- 
zenship Committee has sent to the different candi- 
dates ; and the candidate, without regard to party, 
who refuses to reply to the questions, or fails to 
meet the requirements of our principles, will lose 
the Christian Endeavor votes, as well as the votes 
of a great many who are not members of our organi- 
zation, but who sympathize with us. The questions 
are as follows : 

1. Do you believe in God and recognize His right 
to rule in the affairs of men ? 

2. Do you believe in maintaining Sunday as a day 
of rest and worship ? 

3. Do you believe the saloon to be a menace to 
good government, and that its influence should be 
banished from politics ? 

4. Do you favor all laws and plans which will les- 
sen the evils of or totally annihilate the liquor traffic ? 

5. Do you promise to use your influence to main- 
tain and enforce the present excise law, requiring 
the saloons to be closed on Sunday ? 

6. Do you solemnly pledge yourself to the honest 
fulfilment of the duties pertaining to the office to 
which you may be elected ? 


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Note. — A prompt reply to these questions, which 
as our candidate, we have a right to ask you, may 
win for you many votes. 

A directed, stamped envelope is enclosed, with 
a set of the questions to each candidate.” 

“ Suppose they refuse to answer,” suggested 
another member. 

“No candidate in these days,” replied Harring- 
ton, “ can afford to ignore the Christian Endeavor 
influence."]^ If, perchance, such a thing should hap- 
pen as that all of the candidates should refuse to 
answer any of the questions, and the Endeavorers 
had no other way of ascertaining the requisite in- 
formation, and therefore, should refuse to vote, it 
would probably throw the saloon element into 
greater power than at present even. This, I think, 
would arouse such a w'ave of indignation on the part 
of the better class that they would rise up and prac- 
tically wash the gang off the face of the earth. This 
leads me to suggest that every Endeavorer ought to 
join his favorite political organization and see that 
only the best men are nominated. Such a course 
would save a great deal of valuable time and labor, 
which we have to employ now.” 

“ When we are able to put our own candidates in- 
to the field and elect them,” said Duncan, “ it will 
be a big improvement upon our present govern- 
ment. I would urge every young man to follow our 
leader’s suggestion and identify himself with the 


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political organization and use his influence for 
Christian Endeavor principles. The young ladies 
in the societies, while they are not yet allowed to 
vote, can, nevertheless, use their influence in win 
ning votes for our Endeavor cause.” 

“ Speaking of the ladies,” said a tall young man 
of the church division, “ brings me to my feet. I 
have been very much interested in this subject — the 
power of the women — and I am firmly convinced 
that many young men get their first taste of liquor 
from the hands of young ladies in society. The 
young ladies offer it to the young men because they 
think the young men like it ; while the young men 
take because they think the young ladies want them 
to ; while in reality, each would be willing to drop 
the custom if the other would not mind. I hope 
the young ladies in our societies will use their in- 
fluence with the society leaders to abolish the evil 
custom. We shall then gain more rapidly in our 
temperance work.” 

“ Some young ladies,” said another member, “ like 
to have their wine and liquor as well as the men do. 
I know some very nice girls — and members of the 
church, but fortunately, not members of the Christ- 
ian Endeavor Society — who have their wine every 
day. They believe with Paul, that a little wine for 
the stomach’s sake is good — although they are in no 
sense invalids.” 

“ Then,” said Bradley, “ they ought to agree with 


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another of Paul’s ideas — that if drinking wine maketh 
rhy brother to offend, I will drink no more wine — 
not while it produces eighty per cent, of the crime 
and suffering in this world. O, that men and women 
would learn to know the Lord, who came into this 
world not to please Himself, but to give Himself a 
sacrifice for others.” 

“ Gentlemen of the Band,” said Harrington, rising 
from his seat, “ I believe we have made a good start 
to-night, but the plans we have adopted will do no 
good unless they are put into practice. So now, 
then, to the work! ‘Let us go up at once and pos- 
sess it, for we are well able to overcome it.’ ‘ Arise, 
therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee.’ ” 


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CHAPTER VI. 


RESCUE WORK. 

“ Horace,” said Mrs. Berg as she heard the front 
door bell ring, “ some of the Endeavorers are com- 
ing this evening and will sing for us. They have a 
male quartette and your father heard them sing the 
other night, and he said they sang well. You used 
to sing a great deal and we thought that you would 
like to hear some music.” 

“ Going to sing hymns, I suppose,” replied Horace. 
“ Well, they’ve got me this time, because I can’t 
walk. Tell ’em to make it short.” 

Horace was growing rather impatient because of 
his confinement to the house. His leg was begin- 
ning to mend, but he was anxious to get out with 
his companions. One or two of them had called to 
see him, having read the account of the accident in 
the papers. He could not help, however, contrast- 
ing the manner and appearance of his cronies with 
the Endeavorers who came to see him. He wished 
more than once that he was different from himself, 
but, alas, while the spirit was willing his flesh was 
exceedingly weak, and he gave it up, and was ready 
to return to his haunts. Mr. and Mrs. Berg had 


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consulted with Mr. Duncan and it was agreed that 
Duncan should bring some of his friends and hold a 
meeting in Horace’s presence. It was Duncan who 
had just rung the bell. He was to lead the meeting 
and was the first to arrive. He went over to where 
Horace was reclining and shook his hand heartily. 

“ I’m glad to see you looking so well, to-night,” 
said Duncan. 

“ Thanks,” said Horace. “I suppose I’m doing 
the best I can under the circumstances. But I wish 
I was out o’ here.” 

“You mustn’t get discouraged ; you’ll shortly be 
out again, if you don’t try to walk too soon.” 

The different ones began to arrive and by eight 
o’clock all who were coming were there. With rare 
good tact Duncan did not refer in any way to the 
proposed prayer meeting, but when the young men 
were assembled and had been introduced, he turned 
to Horace and said : 

“ I heard that you were fond of singing and so I 
asked these young men to come around and sing. 
We Endeavorers feel very proud of our male quar- 
tette. They have several new songs which they are 
practicing, and if you don’t object they can rehearse 
them here.” 

“ Oh, I suppose I can stand it if the rest can,” re- 
plied Horace. “ I used to be something of a singer 
myself, but — eh — I — well, this climate don’t seem to 
agree with my throat and I haven’t done much sing- 


64 the city of endeavor, 

ing lately. But tell your friends to fire away.” 

In order to awaken some interest on the part of 
Horace the quartette sang several popular songs, 
among them being one of his favorites, the ‘ Sol- 
diers’ Farewell.’ When he found they could sing 
something besides church tunes, he brightened up 
and asked for different airs, with which he was 
familiar. 

“ I thought you fellers didn’t know anything but 
hymns,” he said. 

“ Oh, yes,” replied Duncan, “ we know a good 
many things, you see. Suppose we try a song with 
which we are all familiar. How would ‘The Old 
Folks at Home ’ do ? Let us all join in and sing 
it.” 

After the singing of that piece, in which Horace 
tried to join, Duncan said, taking a small Testament 
from his pocket : 

“ While the quartette is resting let me read a por- 
tion of Scripture.” 

“Well,” said Horace, “I thought you fellers 
would get around to it ; you have to bring religion 
into everything.” 

“ If we had more religion in our affairs we would 
have less trouble in our lives,” replied Duncan. “ I 
will read the first chapter of first John: ‘That 
which was from the beginning, which we have 
heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we 
have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of 


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the Word of life; (for the life was manifested, and 
we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto 
you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and 
was manifested unto us ;) that which we have seen 
and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may 
have fellowship with us : and truly our fellowship is 
with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 
And these things write we unto you, that your joy 
may be full. 

“ ‘ This then is the message which we have heard 
of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and 
in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have 
fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, 
and do not the truth ; but if we walk in the light, as 
he is in the light, we have fellowship one with an_ 
other, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, 
cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have 
no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in 
us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to 
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all un- 
righteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, 
we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.’ 

“To be blind,” continued Duncan, “is one of the 
greatest misfortunes which we can have. We may 
lose a leg, or both of them, and }et be able to see 
and appreciate the beauty around us ; but if we lose 
our eyesight all beauty is gone, and we have to 
grope our way about in darkness. Though the sun 
be shining ever so brightly it is all dark to us. Two 


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men are heard talking. One who can see says^ 
‘ How bright and beautiful the day is;’ the blind 
man says, ‘You don’t know what you are talking 
about ; it is dark and discouraging.’ But he who 
can see knows whereof he speaks. There are two 
kinds of blindness : physical and spiritual. God is 
the light of the spiritual world, even as the sun is 
the light of the physical world. The Christian says, 
‘ How glorious is the light of the gospel,’ but the in- 
fidel says, ‘You are mistaken; everything is dark 
and uncertain.’ But the Christian knows whereof 
he speaks. ‘ That which we have seen and heard 
declare we unto you,’ ‘God is light. * * * jf 

we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk 
in darkness, we lie.’ Many a poor soul groping 
about in darkness has stumbled into a ray of light, 
in which he saw God and ever after believed in Him. 
Thank God, there is no place so dark but that the 
rays of His divine love can shine into it and glorify 
it. No sinner has such a dark heart but that the 
love of God will brighten it. All we have to do is 
to just open our hearts to Him and He will fill them 
with the brightness of His image. How happy the 
world would be if filled with the sunshine of God’s 
everlasting love. I’m going to ask the quartette to 
sing the song, ‘ Scatter Sunshine.’ ” 

The quartette sang with a great deal of earnest- 
ness, and Horace seemed to be deeply absorbed in 
thought while Duncan had been speaking. 


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I’ve asked Mr. Forsythe to come up to-night and 
speak about his life,” said Duncan. 

Mr. Forsythe arose and said: 

“ Friends, I want to testify to what the light of 
God has done for me. I’ve been a sailor for nigh on 
to forty years. I’ve sailed into nearly every port in 
this world, and now, praise the Lord, I’m sailin’ 
straight for the port above. I ran away to sea when 
I was a boy, and I learned to drink and curse and 
carry on with the boys until I was qualified to be- 
come their leader in everything that was bad. 
Praise the Lord, I’m going to be a leader for good 
things hereafter. I’ve been a Christian now for one 
year, four months and sixteen days. I came into 
this port at that time and went ashore and got 
drunk. I got into a fight with another sailor and 
was arrested. I’ve been arrested before and have 
served my time in jail ; but this time I only had ten 
days in prison. When I got out my ship had sailed, 
and I had no friends and no money. I had heard 
of the Floating Bethel, and I went down there. The 
captain gave me a hearty welcome, and I was sur- 
prised at the friendship showed me by the others. 
There was some nice lookin’ fellows sittin’ on the 
platform, and after awhile they made speeches and 
told about God and His love. Then they had some 
more singing, and most of the sailors seemed to 
know the tunes, for they sang hard. Then the cap. 
tain talked awhile and wanted us all to sign the 


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pledge and quit drinkin.’ One sailor got up and 
told about his life, and what an awful drunkard he’d 
been ; how he’d signed the pledge, and now was 
happy and saving money, instead of sleepin’ in the 
gutters and givin’ his money to them boardin’ house 
runners and saloon keepers. Then some more got 
up and told what the pledge and Jesus Christ had 
done for them. Then some one wanted to sing 
‘Where is my wanderin’ boy to-night.’ I tell you, 
that song touched my heart. I knowed my old 
mother had spent many sleepless nights for me. I 
began to fidget around in my seat and wished I was 
out of there. But I’d never been a coward before, 
and I wasn’t goin’ to git up and show them fellows 
that I couldn’t stay the meetin’ out. So I sat still 
and fidgeted. The more them fellows told how 
happy they was since keepin’ the pledge, the more 
fidgety I got. Then two or three raised their hands 
to be prayed for, and one went up front to sign the 
pledge. The captain got up and says : ‘ Now, boys, 
don’t let the devil keep you back. You know what 
it is to be drunk and homeless, and it don’t pay. 
Just give your heart to Jesus and let Him keep you 
from the gin-mill and the jail. If you have no bunk 
to sleep in, come in here and pick out three or four 
of these wooden chairs and use the soft side of them 
for a bunk. No sailor boy was ever turned away 
from here. We don’t want your money, but we 
want you to sign the pledge and keep it. Now, 


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maybe some is bangin’ back, afraid to come up. 
Jesus Christ is captain of this boat, and He says for 
you boys to come up on deck, where you belong. 
There are several newcomers in here to-night, and 
he wants them to come. Now, boys, when the cap- 
tain says come, you know what it is to disobey. We 
will sing a verse of the song ‘ A little talk with Jesus 
makes it right,’ and I want every one of you boys 
that hasn’t signed the pledge to come right up here 
and sign it.’ 

“Well, friends, I couldn’t stand it any longer, so 
I jest got up and signed that pledge, and one of 
them gentlemen on the platform talked to me about 
Jesus, and said, if we confessed our sins He was 
faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse 
us from all unrighteousness ; and I promised to give 
him my heart. That was one year, four months and 
sixteen days ago, and I aint ever touched a drop of 
liquor since. I’ve got my family back with me. 
We are living in a little, but comfortable home, and 
I am puttin’ some money in the bank every week. 
That’s better than sleepin’ in the gutter and havin’ 
your face all covered with scratches and patches. 
I have seen the light and am walkin’ in it the best I 
know how. Praise the Lord.” 

As soon as Mr. Forsythe had stopped speaking, 
Duncan gave out the hymn “ Throw out the Life- 
Line,” and it was sung with a great deal of expres- 


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“ Throw out the Life-Line across the dark wave, 

There is a brother whom some one should save ; 

Somebody’s brother ! Oh, who then will dare 
To throw out the Life-Line, his peril to share.” 

CHORUS. 

“ Throw out the Life-Line ! Throw out the Life-Line ! 

Some one is drifting away ; 

Throw out the Life-Line ! Throw out the Life-Line ! 

Some one is sinking to-day.” 

Horace had been an attentive listener, and the 
young men were beginning to hope his heart had 
been touched. They put their best effort into the 
last verse : 

“ Soon will the season of rescue be o’er, 

Soon will they drift to eternity’s shore ; 

Haste then, my brother, no time for delay, 

But throw out the Life-Line and save them to-day.” 

A tear rolled down Horace’s cheek, but he quickly 
brushed it away, with the remark : “ This room is so 
hot that it makes me perspire in the eyes.” 

His parents looked shocked and the young men 
were amazed. 

“ My son,” said his mother as she opened the win- 
dow, “ if you had wanted more air you might have 
asked in a more gentlemanly manner.” 

To this Horace made no reply, but turned his face 
towards the wall. 

“ I think,” said Mr. Duncan, “ that we might have 
a word of prayer and then we will go home, as no 


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doubt it is getting late,” and kneeling beside the bed 
whereon Horace lay, he prayed earnestly: 

“ Dear Father, the heavens declare thy glory and 
the firmament showeth thy handiwork ; yet how 
often does man, created in thine image, forget thee 
and wander away to the paths of sin and darkness. 
We thank thee for thy mercy which endureth for- 
ever, and thy loving kindness which endureth 
throughout all generations. Thou art the same yes- 
terday, to-day and forever, and into thy hands we 
commit ourselves for safe keeping. Thou knowest 
the dangers that surround us and the temptations 
which beset us. Especially do we ask thy blessing 
upon this household. Comfort and strengthen the 
father and mother in their trials and in their anxiety 
for the welfare of their sons. Give them faith and 
patience and the blessed companionship of thy holy 
spirit. Let the light of thy love shine into the 
hearts of the young men, that they may behold thy 
righteousness and the beauty of holiness. Give 
them an understanding heart that they may know 
the Lord and serve Him the remainder of their 
days. Be very near, our Father, to this young man 
in his affliction. Thou, who art the Great Physician, 
heal the broken limb and restore the health and 
strength ofhis body and mind and soul. O, we be- 
seech Thee, to let the softening influences of thy 
spirit touch his heart and cause him to forsake the 
evil ways, to realize that the only life worth living is 


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for the glory of Christ. Help us all to realize this 
and to show it in our lives, and all we would ask, 
with the forgiveness of our sins, is in Jesus’ name. 
Amen.” 

Horace was asleep, or pretended to be, when the 
young men arose and said good night. Mr. Berg 
followed the young men to the door. As he shook 
hands with the last one he said : 

“ God bless you, Mr. Duncan ; I can’t thank you 
enough for your kindness to us.” 

“Have patience, Mr. Berg,” he replied. “Your 
son’s heart has been much hardened, but I think it 
opened a little this evening. Good night.” 

The next morning one of Horace’s chums called 
to see him. 

“ Hello, old man, how’s the leg getting along?” 

“ Oh, I guess it’s growing,” was Horace’s reply. 

“Well, I hope you’ll be out soon. We miss you 
around at the club. Suppose we were to bring a 
carriage around for you some evening, couldn’t you 
come with us for the night?” 

“No, I guess not just yet,” said Horace. “I 
don’t want to take any chances. It’s bad enough to 
be kept in and I don’t want to have to do it all over 
again. I’d like mighty well to get out of here, 
though.” ' 

“ Don’t suppose the old man will give you a 
drink, will he ? ” 

“ No, I ain’t had a drop now since I was hurt.” 


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“ I thought as much. I’ve got a little of the pure 
stuff here in my flask, if you want to take a pull at 
it.” 

“Thanks. Don’t care if I do,” said Horace. 

Sh — here comes the old lady — let me have it 
quick.” 

Horace put the whiskey flask to his mouth and 
hurriedly took a swallow, and handed the bottle 
back before his mother entered the room. She took 
a seat near the window and began to read. After a 
rather desultory conversation his friend went away, 
promising to put in a good word for Horace at the 
club. 

Mrs. Berg asked a few questions about the caller 
but found that Horace was inclined to be flighty in 
his remarks, and noticing his face was slightly 
flushed, she, with quick mother-wit, suspected that 
his friend had brought him whiskey. That after- 
noon Horace had a good sleep and awoke in the 
evening feeling the worse for his drink. 

“ What a blamed fool I am,” he thought, as he 
lay there in the dark after the rest had retired. “ I 
wish I was able to quit this drinking business. What 
a sweet looking cuss that Tim Murphy was this 
morning. I wonder if I look like him. So the boys 
miss me at the club, do they? Well, if I could 
shake the whole lot of them I’d do it. It don’t 
pay — this sort of thing. If I hadn’t touched whiskey 
I wouldn’t be lying here with a broken leg and a 


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swelled head. If I could stop it, I’d never touch 
another drop. The cursed stuff ! I used to sing as 
good as any of them chaps that was here last nighty 
but now my voice is all gone. Whiskey done it. 
My stomach, too, is burnt out. Whiskey done it. 
Look at my face — all bloated. Whiskey done it. 
My eyes all blood-shot. Whiskey — oh, the devil 
take the whiskey ! I’m done with it. And Tim 
had to go and bring me a bottle of the stuff here in 
the house. He’s a nice kind of friend to have. 
Duncan wouldn’t have done anything like that. I 
wish I could see that sailor again. I’d like to talk 
with him. So he signed the pledge. I wonder what 
kind of a pledge it was.” Horace thought over the 
words of the sailor and what had been said about 
God forgiving sins. He recalled the prayer and the 
Great Physician. In a moment he clenched his fist 
and sat up in bed. “ I’ll do it ! ” he said to himself. 

If I get well and get out of here, I’m going straight 
down to that Bethel and sign that pledge. If God 
will help that sailor,. He’ll help me make a man of 
myself. Yes, sir, I’ll do it, as sure as my name is 
Horace Berg.” He laid back again upon his pillow 
with a feeling of peace which he had never known 
before. 

In the adjoining room, Carl and his wife were 
awake, each busy with thoughts of the young man 
and his temptations. 

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an idea? This whiskey business is a great curse. I 
have been thinking what I could do to stop it. I 
can’t preach, I aint fitted for it ; but the Lord has 
been good to me and prospered me in business. 
Now, if I knew of some one who could conduct the 
meetings I’d pay the expenses of a Rescue Mission.” 

“ How would Mr. Duncan do?” said Maria. 

“No, he has other work; and besides, he is not 
the kind. The sailor who was here would do better, 
because he has been through all the experiences 
necessary for interesting that class of men. No, Mr. 
Duncan wont do-” 

“ Father ! ” 

“ What is it, my son,” said Carl, starting up. 

“I’ll do it.” 

“ Do what, my boy ? ” 

“ Why, run the Rescue Mission for you. I’ve had 
all the experience necessary, and I have determined 
to follow the sailor’s plan and sign the pledge. May- 
be I can be of some use in the world yet, God help- 
ing me.” 


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CHAPTER VII. 

THE CHURCH AT WORK. 

Gideon’s Band was beginning to attract a con- 
siderable amount of attention on account of the 
work which it was accomplishing. Its influence 
was being felt and many people were applauding its 
efforts. The possibility of a City of Endeavor was 
beginning to take hold of the Christian community, 
and the churches were feeling the influences of the 
convention. They were planning an active cam- 
paign for the winter and revivals were being held in 
many parts of the city. The fact that there was an 
organized body of Christians determined to put 
down the evils in their midst, aroused many church 
members to the fact that the devil didn’t have a 
mortgage on everything, and they became inclined 
to lend a hand and do their share in the City of En- 
deavor. Many Christians who had been apparently 
asleep were now wide-awake in the Master’s service. 
The Band met regularly to report upon the work 
accomplished and to plan other campaigns. One 
evening, when Harrington had called the meeting 
to order, he said : 

Gentlemen of the Band : I am happy in being 


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able to announce that forty-five more young men 
have joined our number, which now gives us ninety 
strong workers in each division. Applications are 
coming in constantly, which is an encouraging sign 
of the times. Our church division has something 
good in store for us this evening, and I am going to 
give Mr. Duncan the floor and let him outline to us 
his ideas on church work.’' 

Mr. Duncan arose and was received with a hearty 
applause. 

“ I am glad to say that our church division is 
meeting with some success. The spirit of unity is 
spreading over the city and the churches are more 
closely bound together in the ties of fellowship. 
They are beginning to realize that a united effort 
will remove a greater obstacle than by pulling apart. 
One man alone cannot lift a heavy load, but three 
men together can remove it. One denomination 
alone cannot lift the evil in our midst, but all de- 
nominations working together can remove it and 
thereby purify our city. It is an encouraging sign — 
this bond of unity. 

“A meeting has been called, to which each de- 
nomination will send a representative. These men 
will plan a line of aggressive work against the workers 
of iniquity ; and it is expected that each church will 
then take up this work and carry it on. Formerly, 
when each denomination, and I was going to say 
each church in the denomination, was seeking to 


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build up its own reputation, and cared not whether 
the rest of the world went to perdition, or the cause 
of Christ made any progress, outside of its own lit- 
tle circle, then the devil had an easy time of it ; but 
now that the churches have overcome their pride 
and selfishness, and really desire to see the kingdom 
of God come, and are willing to lay aside the petty 
differences which separate them, and unite upon the 
grand theme that Jesus Christ came into the world 
to save not only the Presbyterians or Baptists, but 
whosoever believeth on Him— now, I say, his Satanic 
Majesty will have to hustle pretty lively, or he will 
be out of a job in Brooklyn. 

“ Another encouraging sign is the increase in the 
number of Christian Endeavor Societies since the 
convention. The growth has been rapid, and pastors 
who did not before believe in the movement have 
been converted. It is my opinion that the pastor or 
church which does not approve of the C. E. organi- 
zation will soon be left so far in the rear that it will 
not be able to reach to the commissary department 
of God’s advancing army ; and being unable to ob- 
tain the necessary food for maintenance, will linger 
until the coroner’s verdict will be — death by innocu- 
ous desuetude. A church, to live, must have mem- 
bers — live members ; it must have new members to 
take the place of those who have finished their 
labors here ; it must have young members to train 
up in church duties; but the young members and 


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the new members are not flocking backward, but are 
advancing, and prefer to join the church which offers 
opportunities for accomplishing the greatest results. 
To-day the church has no greater equipment for ag- 
gressive work than the Society of Christian En- 
deavor. God pity the man who stands in the way 
of its advancement. 

“ Many pastors, no doubt, are honest in their con- 
victions, and think they are doing right in opposing 
or withholding the Christian Endeavor Society from 
their churches; but, like Saul, they will suddenly 
see a great light from heaven, and hear a voice say- 
ing, ‘Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?’ for if 
there ever was a God-given movement, the Christian 
Endeavor Society is one. 

' “ Some ministers object to the Society because 
the women speak in meeting. I heard one of these 
ministers preach a sermon in the first part of which 
he condemned the women who sat on the platform 
and spoke in a public meeting. In the latter part 
of his discourse he praised the women who went into 
the slums of the city to rescue their fallen sisters. 
Now, sir, I contend that a man has no right to send 
a woman into such work and then put a gag in her 
mouth to prevent her from telling of her work, and 
thus enlisting more workers and means for carrying 
it on — and no one can tell of the work so well as the 
one who is doing it. ' These ministers base their 
objections upon the words of Paul: ‘ Let your women 


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keep silence in the churches/ It may be that th( 
woxdi your should be the^ which naight apply it then 
to other women than the Corinthian. But Paul also 
said : ‘ Suffer not a woman to teach,' yet these same 
pastors have Sunday Schools in which the Women 
teachers outnumber the men two to one. If a woman 
may teach a class of six young men, may she not 
enlarge that class indefinitely? If she may teach 
sitting down, may she not teach standing up, if she 
can be heard to better advantage ? If she may teach 
in one part of the room, may she not in another — 
even if that be upon the platform? Your church 
division, Mr. Chairman, has arranged for a banquet 
to which has been invited all ministers in this city 
who have no C. E. Societies in their churches. Our 
object is to discuss the work of the organization, 
overcome, if possible, their objections, and establish 
new societies. 

“ The winter season is now approaching and, as 
heretofore, there will be many poor people in need 
of assistance. We have a plan to propose whereby 
the needy of this city may be cared for, both tem- 
porally and spiritually. Our plan is very simple 
and, if the churches will use it, they will be able to 
provide for the destitute, and at the same time carry 
the gospel to neglected homes and gradually in- 
crease their own membership. Our Lord had no 
objection to feeding the famished body as well as 
the hungry soul, and we believe the two should be 


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cared for together. Our plan is this : divide the 
city into as many districts as there are churches, and 
then let each church look after one district. Each 
church could employ a Christian visitor to call upon 
the families in its district and thus find out the 
needs of the people. This would also give an op- 
portunity to extend an invitation to attend church 
and to sow good seed for the Master’s harvest. 
This would do away with promiscuous begging, ex- 
cept from strangers who could be dealt with accor- 
dingly, and would eliminate the unworthy class.” 

“ I would like to ask Mr. Duncan,” said a member 
of the newspaper division, “what the smaller 
churches are to do which cannot afford to employ a 
visitor.” 

“ The carrying out of the proposed plan necessi- 
tates the united effort of the churches, and they 
which are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the 
weak,” replied Duncan. “ Home missionary work 
should begin at home, and it is presumed that every 
church has some missionary spirit and some funds 
for that work, but the larger churches could easily 
make up the deficiency. The idea, if feasible for 
this city, could be carried out in other cities, and if 
every city and town in this country should carryout 
the plan, it is easy to imagine what the grand result 
would be. It has been published in one of the city 
papers that Brooklyn has 10,500 manufactories with 
109,000 employes, to whom are paid $65,247,000 in 


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annual wages, or about $600 to each one. Esti- 
mating in the usual way, that is five persons to each 
family, Brooklyn would have 200,000 families. It 
would be a low estimate, indeed, to say that each 
family had only one person who received an annual 
income equal to the factory hand. This would 
mean a yearly income of $120,000,000 for the people 
of Brooklyn. If they would give one-tenth of that 
to the Lord we should have the magnificent sum of 
$12,000,000 a year for the cause of Christ.” 

“ It is certainly a very beautiful idea,” said Har- 
rington, “ but the people of Brooklyn are not all 
Christians yet.” 

“ I am well aware of that, Mr. Chairman,” replied 
Duncan, “ but we are now a City of Endeavor and 
the $12,000,000 is worth endeavoring for if used in 
so good a cause.” 

“All Christians do not believe in giving a tenth.” 

“ That is true, also,” said Duncan. “ Many Chris- 
tians give more than a tenth, which is proper, but I 
believe that every follower of Jesus Christ ought to 
be willing to give at least a tenth of his income for 
the cause of Christianity. Some people would insist 
that the widow who had only a little oil and meal 
for herself and son could not afford to give one-tenth 
or any of it to a stranger, but she gave one-third to 
the Lord’s servant ; and that cruse of oil and barrel 
of meal wasted not, nor failed during the famine. 
See what she gained by being generous in the Lord’s 


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work. Then you remember the widow who cast in 
two mites, but it was not one-tenth ; it was ten- 
tenths which she gave and which won for her the 
Saviour’s benediction. When we consider these 
things surely we can afford to give at least one-tenth 
of our income for the advancement of the cause to 
which we owe our eternal life. One-tenth is a very 
small exchange for such a gift.” 

“There is another matter concerning our 
churches,” continued Duncan, “ which I think is im- 
portant. The observing persons will see that the 
saloons are open all day and every day in Brooklyn, 
while the churches are open at certain hours on two 
and sometimes three days each week. In other 
words man — for man usually carries the keys — man 
says, you may go to the devil as often as you wish 
or have no other place to go, but once or twice a 
week is often enough for you to go to the house of 
God — you ought to be satisfied with that. I tell 
you the time is coming when the temple of God will 
be open to everybody at any time, and the devil’s 
den shall be closed. Shall we not do all we can to 
hasten the coming of that day? 

“ I am glad to announce that many churches are 
already beginning a season of revival meetings with 
promises of an abundant harvest.” 

“This certainly is encouraging,” said Harrington 
when Mr. Duncan had taken his seat. “A thing 
‘well begun is half done,’ and I congratulate the 


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church division upon the excellent beginning it has 
made. The newspaper division has not been asleep 
and I am sure you will be pleased to learn that our 
hopes are to be realized. Our division has been 
hard at work arousing the interest of the Christian 
community in the matter of having an able repre- 
sentative among the daily papers. The wealthy 
men in all denominations have been approached on 
the subject and in most cases have agreed to con- 
tribute a certain sum annually towards the running 
expenses of a daily paper, in which the Christian 
sentiment shall be fearlessly expressed. The 
amount pledged is sufficient to run the paper with- 
out any returns, but as some copies will be sold un- 
doubtedly, and as some advertising will be given us 
at least by the Christian merchants, there will be a 
surplus each year. This surplus, of course, will be 
increased each year as the paper gets better estab. 
lished and gets upon a paying basis. The surplus 
will be invested each year until in the course of time 
the members will get back all they put into it, and 
they will not be out anything, but will have the 
added satisfaction of having established an important 
factor in the advancement of good government and 
righteous living. We shall select the best Christian 
writers and business men to conduct the enterprise, 
so that we are moderately confident of success. This 
new paper, The Christian Endeavor Express^ will 
make its bow to the public on January 2d next/* 


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The applause which greeted this announcement 
lasted fully two minutes. Then Mr. Harrington 
continued : 

“ The importance of this paper will be seen when 
we stop to think of the treatment which we receive 
now from the press. For instance, when the anti- 
Sunday law people held a demonstration, the Brook- 
lyn Buzzard contained quite an account of it, but 
omitted to mention the other important meeting of 
the Sunday Law Enforcement Society, thus giving 
the general public the impression that everybody 
who was doing anything was in favor of the open 
saloon. Hereafter, the people will have a chance to 
see that there are two sides to the question, and that 
the Christian Endeavor people have a voice — and a 
pretty good one, too — in the subject of the Sunday 
observance and other important topics. We shall 
proceed to show up the inconsistencies of the edi- 
torials in the Buzzard^ by the use of the ‘ deadly 
parallel column,’ how it says one day that the law 
must not be enforced, and the next day it says the 
law must be enforced. Perhaps its editorials are 
determined by the amount of influence which it ex- 
pects to receive from one side or the other. What 
this community needs is a truthful, consistent and 
fearless leader, and that it will have in the Christian 
Endeavor Express. 

“ I will detain you to-night but a little longer. I 
have a few items to present which are worth con_ 


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sidering. We have been hearing a great deal about 
the $15,000,000 spent annually in the Brooklyn sa- 
loons, which causes eighty per cent, of our crimes 
and suffering. I wish to contrast that with what 
might be. Suppose, instead of spending that 
$15,000,000 in saloons, the people of Brooklyn were 
to use it in matters of education. How much more 
desirable would life in Brooklyn then be. Look at 
that noble institution of learning, the Brooklyn In- 
stitute of Arts and Sciences,"^ with its many depart- 
ments of increasing man’s intelligence and useful- 
ness. Suppose the first year it were to receive the 
$15,000,000, instead of having it go to the saloon in- 
fluences for destroying man’s intelligence and useful- 
ness. It would give the Institute the finest equip- 
ped building for its purposes in the world, besides 
giving it an endownment fund which would make it 
entirely independent. The second year’s income we 
might give to the public schools. Their property 
valuation at present is $8,500,000, so that the ac- 
commodations could be doubled, and thus prevent 
the present over-crowding, and still have over 
$6,000,000 to invest in a perpetual fund for supply- 
ing the schools with the latest appliances for experi- 
menting and teaching. The school appropriation 
last year was $2,700,000, and this amount would be 
cut down, thus lowering our taxes. The cost of 
cleaning the streets for one year is $352,000; for 


*See Frontispiece. 


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87 


removing garbage and ashes, $309,000 and for 
lighting the streets with gas and electricity, $530,000. 
So, if we were to devote the saloon income for the 
third year to paving the streets, cleaning and lighting 
them, we would have a city of magnificent avenues, 
brilliantly lighted at night from beautiful electric 
fixtures. The fourth year we could turn the saloon 
into a public library, of which the world would be 
proud ; and the fifth year we could establish public 
baths, and could enlarge and beautify our parks 
and driveways, ornamenting them with statues and 
other works of art. That is what we could do in 
five years with the money we now spend to build 
jails and fill them with drunkards and criminals; to 
build insane asylums and poor-houses for idiots and 
paupers produced by the saloons ; to crowd our city 
with cheap, dirty tenements, and fill our streets with 
the refuse of an ignorant and careless community. 
And yet people go on patronizing the saloon and 
then wonder at the increase of crime. 

“There are two other schemes which I think would 
be a decided gain. One is to do away entirely with 
the Coney Island ‘ attractions,’ and turn the place 
into a park, with music and such features as elevate 
the moral and intellectual tone of mankind ; where 
people could go and enjoy the water and not be 
obliged to be mixed in with so much adulteration. 
The other plan is to build an electric railroad through 
the centre of Long Island, running the entire length 


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of the Island. Along this line could be laid out 
beautiful grounds and streets, with every advantage 
for residence purposes. No stores or shops would 
be allowed, except at certain intervals, where dis- 
tributing points were established. This would give 
more desirable locations for homes, within easy 
access of New York or Brooklyn, and prevent the 
overcrowding of the city. Gentlemen, we have a 
glorious opportunity before us — let us make the 
most of it.” 


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CHAPTER VIII. 


ENCOURAGEMENT. 

The winter had gone and the spring flowers were 
beginning to blossom. The air was filled with their 
fragrance, and the birds sang melodies with a won- 
derful sweetness. Somehow this springtime seemed 
far more joyous than usual. The light of the gospel 
had illumined many hearts and thousands were re- 
joicing who before walked in darkness. The revival 
season had been full of fruit and a wave of religious 
enthusiasm had swept over the city. The Christian 
people had awakened to a sense of their privileges 
and responsibilities, and the command, “ Thou shalt 
love thy neighbor as thyself,” had been heard by a 
multitude of citizens who were beginning to put it 
into practice. One of the most encouraging signs 
was the large number of young men who had been 
converted during the winter and had joined the 
churches, taking their places in the Christian En. 
deavor Societies and in Gideon’s Band. To belong 
to Gideon’s Band was considered quite an honor, 
but Harrington insisted on making the requisites for 
membership rather severe, because he considered 
half-hearted work worse than no work. The Band 


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had increased to a little over one thousand mem- 
bers, and was doing excellent work. The Christian 
Endeavor Express had met with greater success than 
had been anticipated, although it was not yet mak- 
ing money. The people appreciated a clean and 
fearless paper and its patronage increased rapidly, 
much to the disgust of the Buzzard. The church 
division had established missions throughout the 
city and had enlisted a host of good workers who 
produced positive results in the Master’s work. 
The law enforcement division had succeeded in 
arousing public sentiment until the saloons were 
closed on Sundays and holidays. The work in all 
departments had been prospered, until the outlook 
was very encouraging for the City of Endeavor. A 
few more years of such growth and Brooklyn would 
be a model city. 

One evening Carl Berg and his wife were sitting 
in their library, talking over the wonderful changes 
that had occurred during the last six or seven 
months. 

“ Maria,” said Carl, “ the Lord has been very good 
to us. I am a very different man to what I was a 
year ago. It was by His mercy that I was led to 
attend that sunrise prayer meeting. That was the 
most glorious sunrise I ever saw. It dispelled the 
gloom of my cloudy mind and enabled me to clearly 
see the glorious beauty of divine love. Then came 
the renewal of your faith and the conversion of our 


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two boys. What a joy it is to have both of our 
sons engaged in the Christian Endeavor work. Yes, 
Maria, I am a happy man and feel twenty years 
younger.’' And he slipped his arm around her 
waist and gave her a kiss. 

“ I, too, am just as happy,” replied his wife ; 
“ happy because I have found my way back into the 
fold, and because my husband and sons have come 
into the same faith. It looked very dark for us at 
one time, but now everything is bright and prom- 
ising. Horace seerris to be devoted to his work in 
the mission and the Lord is surely blessing his 
efforts.” 

“ His appearance and general health has improved 
greatly and I feel proud to call him my son. When 
I started that mission I did not think my son Ste- 
phen would be among the first to be converted there. 
But his ability to play the organ has been a great 
help to his brother. We never supposed a year ago 
that Stephen would be now studying for the min- 
istry. There has been a grand change in our house- 
hold and yet, not in ours alone, but in many another. 
It was a big thing for Brooklyn when the convention 
came here.” 

“ Carl,” said his wife, drawing closer to him, 
“there is one burden on my mind. You know be- 
fore Horace took to drinking so hard he kept com- 
pany with Ethel Hobart. He loved that girl and 
his love was to some degree reciprocated, but when 


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he began drinking, like a sensible girl she refused to 
have anything to do with him. Now that he has re- 
formed I can see his old love coming back, and now 
the sense of shame for his past life is so great that 
he cannot bring himself to ask her to accept such a 
miserable being as he feels himself to be." 

“Well, Maria, there's time yet and love is some- 
thing that outsiders can’t meddle with to any great 
extent, without doing more harm than good. Just 
let the Lord bring it about in His own good time." 

“ She would make an excellent wife. She is an 
earnest Christian worker, sensible and healthy. She 
would be a great help to Horace in his mission 
work." 

Just then Stephen came in and his father said : 

“Well, my boy, what sort of a meeting did you 
have ? " 

“Had a fine meeting," was the reply; “don’t 
think I ever heard Horace speak so earnestly in my 
life. He seemed inspired and threw his whole soul 
into his speech, and when he came to tell the story 
of his life I didn’t see a dry eye in the audience. 
One of his old chums was there — Tim Murphy, I 
think he called him — and when he came in he had a 
sort of sneer on his face, but you ought to have seen 
his expression change as Horace warmed up in his 
speech. When he got through and invited the boys 
to come up and sign the pledge, Tim came up with 
the tears running down his cheeks and took Horace’s 


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hand and said: ‘Old boy, I’ve done you some 
mighty mean tricks in my time, but I’m sorry now 
and am goin’ to sign the pledge and quit the old 
gang, the same as you’ve done. I hope you’ll for* 
give me for bringin’ that whiskey into your house 
that time you was laid up with a game leg. You’ve 
done me a mighty good turn to-night.’ And so Tim 
signed the pledge with fifteen others.” 

“ Well, where is Horace — did he stay down at the 
mission ? ” 

“O no; he’s gone up the street with some of the 
visitors. There were two young ladies and their 
escorts from some Congregational Church up-town 
who had heard of the mission and came down to see 
it. One of the young ladies was that Hobart girl 
that Horace used to go with, and as she seemed in- 
terested in the work he began to tell her about the 
mission, and when we came away he said he would 
walk up to the City Hall with them where they take 
the cars.” 

Did you say Miss Hobart had an escort? ” asked 
his mother. 

“Yes, and a mighty nice looking fellow he was 
too. I shouldn’t be surprised if they were engaged. 
She introduced him as Mr. Johnson — or Johnston, I 
don’t know which. I didn’t go all the way with 
them as I was tired, and that reminds me — I think I 
will go to bed. Good night.” 


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CHAPTER IX. 


CONCLUSION. 

Four years have passed and Brooklyn is still the 
City of Endeavor, although far more advanced than 
it was at the time of the Christian Endeavor Con- 
vention. Then, it was a city of saloons ; now, it is 
a real city of churches — or perhaps it would be bet- 
ter to say, a city of more real churches. The liquor 
element has been put out entirely, and there is not 
a saloon in the county. One or two brewing estab- 
lishments still remain, but they are preparing to 
transfer their plants to other and more congenial 
locations. The enforcing of the Sunday law com- 
pelled many saloons to close up entirely, as without 
the Sunday trade they could not make the business 
pay. The other saloons gradually closed out, be- 
cause the business fell off so greatly, on account of 
the large increase in teetotalers. Total abstinence 
became the principle of every intelligent and self- 
respecting individual who cared aught for the im- 
provement of the community. So great was the 
falling off in wine-bibblers in four years that the 
saloon keepers found they could make more money 
elsewhere, and decamped, leaving Brooklyn “ to its 


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fate,” as they remarked. But with the passing of 
the saloon, Brooklyn has made a better and cleaner 
appearance, and has become by far a safer place to 
reside ; and these, with other like advantages, at- 
tract a multitude of very desirable inhabitants, and 
has increased its population to 1,500,000. An 
honest administration has given the city good 
government and better conditions for living. The 
rookeries have been demolished and replaced with 
model tenement houses, and every street gives evi- 
dence of new and better life. Real estate has in- 
creased in value fifty per cent. The religious daily 
has become the leading paper, with an enormous 
circulation, which is not by any means confined to 
the City of Brooklyn, for outsiders look upon it with 
a feeling of curiosity and admiration. The savings 
banks are doing a larger business, and everybody 
has a prosperous appearance and looks happy. The 
electric car service has been improved and extended, 
and the annexation of Queen’s County is now the 
topic of discussion. Educational matters are receiv- 
ing more attention, and Brooklyn will soon become 
noted for its wisdom and learning. • Beautiful 
churches adorn the city, and the congregations work 
and worship harmoniously. More than double the 
amount of money is raised annually for church work. 
Laws are being enforced, and the city is practically 
free from the criminal class. Gideon’s Band is still 
in existence, seeking new fields to conquer, and they 


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still win under the old motto : “ Let us go up at 
once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome 
it.” 

So many members of the various athletic clubs 
have been converted that the teetotalers have had a 
majority in the membership, and have voted to dis- 
pense with liquors and cards in the clubs. In the 
theatres, the Vaudeville shows have played to such 
poor houses that the companies now have taken 
Brooklyn off their tours, and the theatres are used 
mainly for recitals, concerts, lectures, and grand mass 
meetings of the Endeavorers. 

Stephen Berg has finished his studies in the semi- 
nary and is now ordained to preach the Gospel. 

■ 5 ^ ^ * 

One bright moonlight evening in the early fall, a 
young man walked home with a young lady from a 
Rescue Mission and lingered at the door. 

“You cannot guess how much inspiration your 
presence at the Mission gives me,” said he. 

“ It is very kind of you to say so,” she replied, 
“ but just look at the stars, how beautiful they are 
to-night — and the moon — isn’t it glorious?” 

“Yes, if you say so ; but I’m talking about some- 
thing more beautiful than they. I’m speaking of an 
angel.” 

“Pshaw! Don’t be silly. You know I’m no 
angel.” 


CONCLUSION. 


97 


“True. You are more than an angel. I do not 
know what I should do were you to leave the Mis- 
sion, and yet — and yet I have no claim upon you if 
you wish to go.” 

“ Why, what makes you suggest such a thing. I 
have no intention of going — not at present, any- 
way.” 

“ Ethel, I cannot remain silent any longer. I 
must speak. I love you — love you with all the de- 
votion that a wasted life can produce.” He started 
to put his arm around her, then stopped. “ No,” he 
continued, “ I love you too well to ask you to take 
the name of a man who has been a drunkard — a 
common drunkard, reeling in the gutter. Yet life 
without you is so desolate ! Ethel, do not leave me, 
but stay at the Mission, where I can at least see you 
and feel the influences of your sweet life.” 

“ Horace, listen to me. You must not talk about 
your past life. You have made mistakes, but who 
hasn’t ? You are a very different man now to what 
you were then, and the experiences which you went 
through fitted you for doing a noble work for the 
Master. Perhaps we would not have chosen that 
path, but that is past, and it is the future which is 
before us. I have been watching you ever since I 
first attended your Mission, four years ago, and a 
man who has the strong, unselfish character which 
you have, is the man whose name I should be will- 
ing to take.” 


98 


THE CITY OF ENDEAVOR. 


“Ethel! Can you love me — will you be mine? 
O, do say yes ! ” 

“Yes, Horace, I can and will.” 

“ My love,” said Horace, clasping her in his em- 
brace, “ the Lord has been very good to me when 
I’ve been such an — ” 

“ Sh — you forget ; you are not to speak of the 
past.” 

“Very well, sweetheart; but say, when shall the 
wedding be ? ” 

“ Next month, if you wish.” 

“ And the minister — ” 

“ Shall be your brother Stephen.” 


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